IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/diw/diwsop/diw_sp852.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Fachkräfte in der frühen Bildung - Erwerbssituation, Einstellungen und Änderungswünsche

Author

Listed:
  • C. Katharina Spieß
  • Johanna Storck

Abstract

This report examines the labor market situation of those providing daycare or educational services to children primarily aged 6 or less in Germany. The analysis of these child daycare professionals is based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the supplemental SOEP-study, “Families in Germany” (FiD). The analysis contrasts the socio-demographic characteristics of child daycare professionals with those of comparable occupations. In addition to a comprehensive analysis of the employment situation of these child daycare professionals, their contentment, workloads, and preferences are also reviewed. The labor market preferences of child daycare professionals, based upon socio-demographic characteristics, personality traits, and family circumstances are analyzed. The study also evaluates if child daycare professionals experience excessive stress and strain in their work. To achieve this, we compare the self-evaluations of the child daycare professionals to those in comparable occupations. The results show that attitudes of child daycare professionals, which are also reflected within their personality, correspond highly with their occupational field. Although, child daycare professionals tend to have relatively high job satisfaction, they also face significant challenges in their day-to-day work. We do not find a “gratification crisis” among the child daycare professionals, even though the burdens they experience are not trivial. It is noteworthy that many child daycare professionals feel that their employers underappreciate their efforts and that they lack career opportunities. Almost half of the child daycare professionals feel that their salary is inadequate.

Suggested Citation

  • C. Katharina Spieß & Johanna Storck, 2016. "Fachkräfte in der frühen Bildung - Erwerbssituation, Einstellungen und Änderungswünsche," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 852, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
  • Handle: RePEc:diw:diwsop:diw_sp852
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.539860.de/diw_sp0852.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Frauke H. Peter & Johanna Storck, 2015. "Persönlichkeitseigenschaften beeinflussen die Studienabsicht von Jugendlichen," DIW Wochenbericht, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 82(1/2), pages 3-10.
    2. Thomas Dohmen & Armin Falk, 2010. "You Get What You Pay For: Incentives and Selection in the Education System," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 120(546), pages 256-271, August.
    3. Kai-Uwe Müller & Michael Neumann & Katharina Wrohlich, 2013. "Bessere Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf durch eine neue Lohnersatzleistung bei Familienarbeitszeit," DIW Wochenbericht, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 80(46), pages 3-11.
    4. Juliane F. Stahl, 2015. "Wer nutzt welche Qualität? Zusammenhänge zwischen sozioökonomischer Herkunft und Kita-Qualität," DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus 73, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    5. Michael Weinhardt & Jürgen Schupp, 2011. "Multi-Itemskalen im SOEP Jugendfragebogen," Data Documentation 60, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    6. Simon Fietze, 2011. "Arbeitszufriedenheit und Persönlichkeit: "Wer schaffen will, muss fröhlich sein!"," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 388, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    7. C. Katharina Spieß, 2013. "Investitionen in Bildung: frühkindlicher Bereich hat großes Potential," DIW Wochenbericht, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 80(26), pages 40-47.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Spieß, Katharina & Stock, Johanna, 2016. "Fachkräfte in der frühen Bildung - Erwerbssituation, Einstellungen und Änderungswünsche. Eine Analyse auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und Familien in Deutschland (FiD)," Working Paper Forschungsförderung 009, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf.
    2. Bauer, Kevin & Kosfeld, Michael & von Siemens, Ferdinand, 2021. "Incentives, Self-Selection, and Coordination of Motivated Agents for the Production of Social Goods," IZA Discussion Papers 14595, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Ehlert, Martin & Finger, Claudia & Rusconi, Alessandra & Solga, Heike, 2017. "Applying to college: Do information deficits lower the likelihood of college-eligible students from less-privileged families to pursue their college intentions?: Evidence from a field experiment," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 67, pages 193-212.
    4. Mandy Schult & Verena Tobsch, 2012. "Freizeitstress: wenn die Arbeit ständig ruft," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 485, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    5. Maria Cotofan, 2019. "Learning from Praise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Teachers," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 19-082/V, Tinbergen Institute.
    6. Arnaud Chevalier & Olivier Marie, 2013. "Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the "Children of the Wall"," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 605, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    7. Beckmann, Fabian, 2020. "Perceived Job Quality in German Minijobs. A Multidimensional Analysis of Work in Marginal Part-time Employment RelationshipsDate submitted: August 23, 2018Revised version accepted after double-blind r," management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 31(2), pages 116-144.
    8. Hille, Adrian & Schupp, Jürgen, 2015. "How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 44, pages 56-82.
    9. Nirav Mehta, 2019. "Measuring quality for use in incentive schemes: The case of “shrinkage” estimators," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 10(4), pages 1537-1577, November.
    10. Daniel H. Bowen & Stuart Buck & Cary Deck & Jonathan N. Mills & James V. Shuls, 2015. "Risky business: an analysis of teacher risk preferences," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 470-480, August.
    11. Müller, Kai-Uwe & Neumann, Michael & Wrohlich, Katharina, 2018. "The family working-time model: Towards more gender equality in work and care," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 28(5), pages 471-486.
    12. Eva M. Berger & Luke Haywood, 2016. "Locus of Control and Mothers’ Return to Employment," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 10(4), pages 442-481.
    13. Tamás Keller & Guido Neidhöfer, 2014. "Who Dares, Wins?: A Sibling Analysis of Tertiary Education Transition in Germany," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 713, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
    14. Brandts, Jordi & Corgnet, Brice & Hernán-González, Roberto & Ortiz, José Mª & Solà, Carles, 2021. "Watching or not watching? Access to information and the incentive effects of firing threats," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 189(C), pages 672-685.
    15. Ayaita Adam & Yang Philip & Gülal Filiz, 2019. "Where Does the Good Shepherd Go? Civic Virtue and Sorting into Public Sector Employment," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 20(4), pages 571-599, December.
    16. Cabane, Charlotte & Hille, Adrian & Lechner, Michael, 2016. "Mozart or Pelé? The effects of adolescents' participation in music and sports," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 90-103.
    17. Mirco Tonin & Michael Vlassopoulos, 2015. "Are public sector workers different? Cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees," IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 4(1), pages 1-21, December.
    18. Woessmann, Ludger, 2011. "Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 30(3), pages 404-418, June.
    19. Audra J. Bowlus & Eda Bozkurt & Lance Lochner, 2017. "Wages and Employment: The Canonical Model Revisited," University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP) Working Papers 20179, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP).
    20. Brussig, Martin & Stegmann, Tim & Zink, Lina, 2014. "Aktivierung von älteren ALG-II-Beziehenden mit mehrfachen Vermittlungshemmnissen : der Einfluss lokaler Umsetzungsstrategien," IAB-Forschungsbericht 201412, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:diw:diwsop:diw_sp852. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Bibliothek (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/sodiwde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.