Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), it is shown that income comparisons with persons who are better off has a clear impact on the job satisfaction of West German full-time employees. Two contrary effects can be identified. On the one hand, there is an aversion to disadvantageous regional income inequality, while, on the other hand, individuals prefer inequality within their ...

What (if anything) do satisfaction scores tell us about the intertemporal change in living conditions?

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends on the extent to which people adapt to living conditions in general. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model provides evidence that adaptation takes place within a relatively short window of time: changes in living conditions ...

Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover

Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the analysis shows a common, and quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be characterized by three age ...

Inferring floor area ratio thresholds for the delineation of city centers based on cognitive perception

The morphology of today’s cities is the result of historic urban developments and on-going urban transformation resulting in complex urban spatial structures. While functionally as well as spatially, cities are structured into sub-units such as the city center, business districts, residential areas, or industrial and commercial zones, their precise localization in the geographic space is sometimes ...

Staggered Entry and Unemployment Durations - An Application to German Data

An Econometric Analysis of Individual Unemployment Duration in West Germany

Childhood and Capability Deprivation in Germany: A Quantitative Analysis Using German Socio-Economic Panel Data

Child poverty has been widely discussed in Germany since the publication of the third official Poverty and Wealth Report of the German government in 2008 which - inter alia - focused on the situation of children and families. However, child poverty is not only caused by low household incomes and impacts of child poverty are not only restricted to financial consequences. The capability approach takes ...

Access to urban green space and environmental inequalities in Germany

Although sufficient and equitable access to urban green represents a key aspect for adequate living conditions and a healthy environment in urban areas, national studies investigating the provision of urban green on household and individual level are scarce. We present a study investigating access to urban green space and environmental inequalities in German major cities by merging geo-coded household ...

Accessibility of urban blue in German major cities

Action 5 of the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy explicitly mentions that EU member states, with assistance of the Commission, will map and assess the state of ecosystems and ecosystem services in their national territory by 2014. Water represents an important landscape element and contributes to human health and well-being in urban areas. However, in Germany – like in many other European countries – ...