Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Sozialwissenschaften und Politik bei der deutschen Wissenschafts-Vereinigung. Der Fall der "Kommission für die Erforschung des sozialen und politischen Wandels in den neuen Bundesländern (KSPW)"

The Vocabulary and Overclaiming Test (VOC-T)

The present research aimed at constructing a questionnaire measuring overclaiming tendencies (VOC-T-bias) as an indicator of self-enhancement. An approach was used which also allows estimation of a score for vocabulary knowledge, the accuracy index (VOC-T-accuracy), using signal detection theory. For construction purposes, an online study was conducted with N = 1,176 participants. The resulting questionnaire, ...

Steigende Lebenserwartung geht mit besserer Gesundheit einher

Cohort Changes in the Incidence of Care Need in West Germany Between 1986 and 2005

In Germany, the share of the older population has been continuously growing. Is the increase paralleled by a rising number of frail people, however? In search of an answer, we analyse the development of care need incidence in West Germany between 1986 and 2005 on the basis of longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The results show a lower transition risk to care need for each ...

Jahreswohlstandsbericht" - konzeptionelle und empirische Grundlagen (Gutachten im Auftrag von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen - Endbericht)

Gemeinnützige Organisationen im gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Ergebnisse der Dritte-Sektor-Forschung. 2. Auflage

Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programs

This study is the first to estimate price elasticities of demand for convalescent care programmes. In 1997, the German legislature more than doubled the daily co-payments for the publicly insured from €6 to €13. The measure caused the overall demand for convalescent care treatments to fall by 20 to 25%. I estimate the price elasticity for medical rehabilitation programmes aimed at preventing work disability ...

Measurement of health, health inequality, and reporting heterogeneity

Using representative survey data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of health inequality measures like the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self-assessed health (SAH) are employed. With the use ...

Long-term absenteeism and moral hazard - Evidence from a natural experiment

This paper shows that long-term sick employees are unlikely to be very responsive to moderate monetary labor supply incentives. The paper, theoretically and empirically, evaluates the labor supply effects of cuts in statutory sick pay levels on long-term absenteeism in Germany. Cutting sick pay did not significantly reduce the average incidence and duration of sick leave periods longer than six weeks. ...

Assessing the effectiveness of health care cost containment measures: evidence from the market for rehabilitation care

This study empirically evaluates the effectiveness of different health care cost containment measures. The measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for rehabilitation care. Of the analyzed measures, doubling the daily copayments was clearly the most effective cost containment measure, resulting in a reduction in utilization ...