Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The Effects of Mobility on Neighbourhood Social Ties

This research examines the strength of people’s ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP). All forms of mobility have increased over time and are negatively associated with visiting ...

Income Comparisons among Neighbours and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany

This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) to investigate whether changes in others' income are perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative and slightly more marked in neighbourhoods where the neighbours interact socially. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income ...

Neighbourhood social ties: how much do residential, physical and virtual mobility matter?

Following up on the prediction by classical sociological theorists that neighbours will become irrelevant as societies become more mobile, this research examines the strength of people’s social ties with neighbours and the associations thereof with residential, physical and virtual mobility using longitudinal data for Germany. Unlike previous studies, the research considers the three forms of mobility ...

Keeping up with the Schmidts - An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context

We test empirically whether people’s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory suggests that individuals are happier the better their relative income position in the neighbourhood is. To test ...

Armut und Alter

Regional Data in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Lebenslauf, soziale Mobilität und Gesundheit

Dieser Beitrag beschreibt den Zusammenhang zwischen sozialer Mobilität und Gesundheit. In Relation zu Personen, die über den Lebenslauf eine konstant hohe Position innehatten, wiesen inter- und intragenerational abwärts Mobile und Personen in einer dauerhaft niedrigen Position eine schlechtere selbstberichtete Gesundheit auf. Der Abstieg in Arbeitslosigkeit ist vor allem bei Männern innerhalb der eigenen ...

Social mobility, accumulation of disadvantages and health. An analysis with retrospective data from the GSOEP (2002–14)

Socioeconomic position (SEP) in different life stages is related to health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Yet, research on the relevance of life course processes is scarce. This study aims to analyse the association between accumulation of disadvantages, social mobility and HRQoL. Methods: Analyses were conducted using population-averaged panel-data models and are based on data from the German Socio-Economic ...

Katastrophen-Effekt nicht übertragbar (Interview mit Jürgen Schupp)

He's a Chip Off the Old Block - The Persistence of Occupational Choices Across Generations

The purpose of this paper is to assess if parents exert an influence on the occupation choices of their children. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistency of occupational decisions across fathers and children using nested and conditional logit models. To separate effects related to genetic factors (nature) and parental education or role models (nurture), we ...