Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Entwicklung zweier Kurzskalen zur Messung von Machiavellismus und Egoismus: Dokumentation eines Instrumententests auf Basis des SOEP-Pretests 2006

Sowohl in den Sozial- als auch in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften lässt sich der Trend beobachten, dass individuelle Handlungspräferenzen und persönliche Werthaltungen bei der Fundierung menschlicher Handlungstheorie zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen. Diese Entwick-lung spiegelt sich auch im Fragenprogramm des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) wider, das im Laufe der letzten Erhebungswellen bereits um ...

Ist mein Einkommen gerecht?

Aus der „Status-Wert-Theorie“, „A New Theory of Distributive Justice“ und den austauschtheoretischen Erklärungsansätzen lässt sich schlussfolgern, dass Individuen ihr eigenes Einkommen in Abhängigkeit von Durchschnittseinkommen, der Einkommensungleichheit und ihrer sozialen Position in einem Einkommensgefüge als gerecht oder ungerecht bewerten. Für die Überprüfung des Sachverhalts wurde eine internetbasierte ...

Healthy donor effect and satisfaction with health

The objective of this paper is to quantify selection effects related to blood donation behavior and their impact on donors’ perceived health status. We rely on data from the 2009 and 2010 survey waves of the German socio-economic panel (N = 12,000), including information on health-related, demographic and psychographic factors as well as monetary donation behavior and volunteer work. We propose a propensity ...

Profiling Donors of Blood, Money, and Time: A Simultaneous Comparison of the German Population

Understanding donor profiles is crucial for donor relationship management. Whereas previous research has focused on profiling blood, money, or time donor segments separately, we define seven donor profiles based on their former donation behavior for blood, money, and time donation and compare them to non-donors. Relying on representative data from the German Socio Economic Panel, we use an extensive ...

Wives' Economic Contribution to the Household Income in Japan with Cross-national Perspective

Widowhood Later in Life in Japan: Considering Social Security System in Aging Society

Delay in Marriage and Income Inequality in Japan: The Impact of the Increased Number of Unmarried Adults Living with Their Parents on the Household Economy

The continuous decline in the fertility rate has been witnessed since 1980 in Japan. Japan’s total fertility rate in 2005 is 1.32, which is far below the replacement rate, 2.08. One of the main reasons for declining the fertility rate is the delay in marriage or even shy away from marriage among young adults. In this paper, looking at youth in terms of their relation to the household, we will examine ...

School Hours and Maternal Labor Supply

This paper examines the effect of extending the primary school day on maternal labor supply. I exploit the staggered nature of the recent German reform to extend school hours and assess whether or not gaining access to a full day school increases the likelihood that mothers enter into the labor market or extend their hours worked if already employed. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data set (GSOEP) ...

Stressed by Your Job: What Is the Role of Personnel Policy?

Work-related stress can lead to substantial health problems and thereby result in immense costs for establishments. Therefore, the question as to what extent establishments contribute to their employees’ stress levels is of great importance for firm performance. In this paper, the relationship between personnel policy and work-related stress is investigated by considering a series of human resource ...

Early Retirement in West Germany: A Hazard Rate Model in Discrete Time