Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Effect of Unempolyment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability

Residential Mobility and Housing Adjustment of Older Households in Europe

Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability

The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries

Geographic labour mobility and unemployment insurance in Europe

Job Displacement and the Transition to Re-Employment and Early Retirement for Non-Employed Older Workers across Institutional Environments

Despite the relatively higher frequency of job displacement among older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for a number of countries with differences in their institutional environments, the effect of job displacement for non-employed workers is identified separately for the transitions ...

Stability of Risk Attitudes and Media Coverage of Economic News

This paper investigates the impact of exogenous changes in individuals' perceived economic environment on their self-stated risk attitudes by exploiting changes in media coverage of economic news. We use information on risk attitudes from the German Socioeconomic Panel and combine it with data on the average daily frequency of economic news reports during the year and the month preceding the date ...

How to Build a User Friendly Household Panel Data Base

Feeling European: an exploration of ethnic disparities among immigrants

Over the last 20 years, European identity has become a key topic widely investigated in social sciences. However, most research has only focused on EU nationals and EU immigrants, neglecting the fact that a substantial segment of citizens in Europe are non-EU immigrants. This article explores the differences between and within EU and non-EU immigrant groups in terms of European identity and potential ...

The effect of reciprocal motives, personality traits and wage differences on public employees’ job satisfaction

This study explores the determinants of public employees’ job satisfaction. We are focusing on three concepts – reciprocal motives, personality traits and wage differences – to explain job satisfaction and production sector affiliation. Estimation results obtained from multivariate analyses on individual level data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) can be summarized in three points: ...