Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Einflüsse von Lebensstilmerkmalen auf den Übergang in die erste Ehe

Lebensstile und Entwicklungspfade nichtehelicher Lebensgemeinschaften. Eine empirische Analyse mit dem Sozioökonomischen Panel (Dissertation)

Wie verändert sich die Religiosität im Lebensverlauf? Eine Panelanalyse unter Berücksichtigung von Ost-West-Unterschieden

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and fixed-effects regression models, this paper examines church attendance rates across the life course. For 1992–2007, the overall frequency of churchgoing shows a slight decrease (secularization). This period effect is continuously thwarted by a positive age effect. However, this positive age effect becomes weaker over the recent years which also might ...

East-West Couples: Distribution, Characteristics and Stability

SOEP data were used to examine relationships consisting of one partner socialised in West Germany and one in East Germany and who presently reside in the “old” (former West German) or “new” (newly for med East German) federal states. The estimated share of east-west couples among all marriages or cohabiting couples rises continuously within the observed period reaching approximately two and eleven ...

Ost-West-Paare: Verbreitung, Eigenschaften und Stabilität

Auf der Basis von SOEP-Daten werden Partnerschaften untersucht, die jeweils aus einem westdeutsch und ostdeutsch sozialisierten Partner bestehen und aktuell in den alten oder neuen Bundesländern wohnen. Der geschätzte Anteil der Ost-West-Paare an allen Ehen bzw. nichtehelichen Lebensgemeinschaften erhöht sich im Beobachtungszeitraum kontinuierlich und liegt im Jahr 2009 bei etwa zwei bzw. elf Prozent. ...

Two Worlds of Retirement Income: A comparative Analysis of Retirement-Income Outcomes Using the Luxembourg Income Study

Occupational Change in Britain and Germany

We use British and German panel data to analyse job changes involving a change in occupation. We assess the extent of occupational change, taking into account the possibility of measurement error in occupational codes; whether job changes within the occupation differ from occupation changes in terms of the characteristics of those making such switches; and the effects of the two kinds of moves in terms ...

Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes | the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (forthcoming) | with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time (one year) and (b) their correlation with actual risk-taking behaviour in the lab - here the amount ...

Identifying Laffer Bounds: A Sufficient-Statistics Approach with an Application to Germany

We derive a simple sufficient-statistics test for whether a nonlinear tax-transfer system is second-best Pareto efficient. If it is not, then it is beyond the top of the Laffer curve and there exists a tax cut that is self-financing. The test depends on the income distribution, extensive and intensive labor supply elasticities, and income effect parameters. A tax-transfer system is likely to be inefficient ...

Does Commuting Matter to Subjective Well-Being?

How and why commuting contributes to our well-being is of considerable importance for transportation policy and planning. This paper analyses the relation between commuting and subjective well-being by considering several cognitive (e.g., satisfaction with family life, leisure, income, work, health) and affective (e.g., happiness, anger, worry, sadness) components of subjective well-being. Fixed-effects ...