Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Unemployment: Where does it Hurt?

Why Are the Unemployed So Unhappy? Evidence from Panel Data

This paper tests for the importance of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment using a longitudinal data-set on life-satisfaction of working-age men in Germany. We show that unemployment has a large detrimental effect on satisfaction after individual specific fixed effects are controlled for. The non-pecuniary effect is much larger than the effect that stems from the associated loss of income.

Personality, work, and satisfaction: evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Vocational Training and the Transition to the Labor Market: the German Case

Apprenticeship and After: Does it Really Matter?

The Impact of Weighting Systems on Panel Surveys (ECHP and SOEP)

Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal Social Science Surveys

Social scientists usually assume that the attitudes, behaviors, and statuses of respondents to longitudinal surveys are not altered by the act of measuring them. If this assumption is false—or even if the quality of survey participants’ responses change because of measurement—then social scientists risk mischaracterizing the existence, magnitude, and correlates of changes across survey waves in respondents’ ...

Sample Attrition between Waves 1 and 5 in the European Community Household Panel

Issues in Using the ECHP

The HILDA Survey: a case study in the design and development of a successful household panel study

The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is one of only a small number of well-established, large, nationally-representative household panel studies conducted in the world. With annual data collection commencing in 2001 there are now over 10 years of unit record data available to researchers, with the promise of many more to come. While the design of the HILDA Survey owes ...