Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Estimation of Linear models from Coarsened Observations: A Method of Moments Approach

In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics, subjective well-being (SWB) and self-assessed health (SAH) studies, and in marketing research, Ordered Probit, ...

Digitale Selbstwirksamkeit als Schlüssel zur Arbeitszufriedenheit im demographischen Wandel. Der Mediierende Effekt digitaler Selbstwirksamkeit auf die Beziehung zwischen Alter und Arbeitszufriedenheit. (Bachelor Thesis)

Die kontinuierliche Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt führt zu immer schnelllebigeren und komplexeren Arbeitsumfeldern, welche auf der effektiven Nutzung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) beruhen. Arbeitsfelder transformieren und verdichten sich mit rasanter Geschwindigkeit. Parallel steigt das durchschnittliche Alter der arbeitnehmenden Population und die Arbeitszufriedenheit sinkt. ...

Is It Possible to Raise National Happiness?

We revisit the Easterlin paradox about the flatness of the happiness trend over the long run, in spite of sustained economic development. With a bounded scale that explicitly refers to “the best possible life for you” and “the worst possible life for you”, is it even possible to observe a rising trend in self-declared life satisfaction? We consider the possibility of rescaling, i.e. that the interpretation ...

Einkommenseffekte des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns in Deutschland reichen bis in die Mitte der Verteilung

Economies of Scale for Household Wealth: An Analysis of Equivalence Scales

Measures of private wealth often refer to households or tax-units, but how does household wealth relate to individual welfare? Analogous to household economies of scale for consumption, this paper offers a methodology and empirical results to account for household wealth scale effects. These scale effects vary depending on the purpose of savings: funding consumption versus holding wealth for motives ...

Transnational ties, endowment with capital, and health of immigrants in Germany: cross-sectional study

Aim: Maintaining transnational ties may be an indication of poor integration into the host society (according to classical ‘assimilation theory’) or may convey additional capital resources to immigrants (the ‘transmigrant’ view of migration). Consequences for health would be negative in the first and positive in the second scenario. We tested the hypotheses that (1) maintaining transnational ties may ...

Willingness to Care-Financial Incentives and Caregiving Decisions

As population aging will likely lead to an increasing number of people in need of care, the demand for informal care is expected to rise. In this context, it is often discussed whether financial incentives can motivate more individuals to assume caregiving responsibilities. We analyze the potential effect of financial incentives on the provision of informal care by estimating a structural model with ...

Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from five European countries

We use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then remained relatively stable throughout 2021 and 2022. We then establish the individual determinants of loneliness ...

The Dynamics of Household Location Preferences in Germany

Inspired by the literature on social polarisation and residential segregation we draw on a probabilistic approach to pursue the evolution of household location preferences in West Germany. Using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 1984-2020 we demonstrate that structural economic change was accompanied by an increasing preference for residence in compact housing close ...

Langfristige Wohnstandortpräferenzen: Schlechte Nachrichten für ländliche Regionen

Zunehmende Stadt-Land-Unterschiede beim Wohnen finden in der öffentlichen Diskussion und in der Regionalpolitik starke Beachtung. Der Artikel diskutiert, inwieweit Mikrodaten aus dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) genutzt werden können, um die geänderten Wohnstandortpräferenzen besser zu verstehen. Anhand ausgewählter Indikatoren wird unter anderem deutlich, dass in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten Wohnungen ...