Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Material Consequences of Welfare States: Benefit Generosity and Absolute Poverty in 16 OECD Countries

Several recent studies have focused attention on the relationship between welfare states and poverty, looking primarily at relative poverty and employing concepts of welfare state generosity that are problematic. This has made it difficult to evaluate claims that equality has come at the expense of economic growth. In this article, the authors examine more directly the relationship between welfare ...

Integration of "Old" and "New" Immigrant Groups in Germany

Occupational and Economic Mobility and Social Integration of Mediterranean Migrants in Germany

Social and Economic Integration of Foreigners in Germany

Essays in Behavioural Economics

The goal of behavioural economics is to improve classic microeconomic theory by introducing motives and concepts from related fields like psychology and sociology. The driving paradigm of most neo-classical economic research is the concept of the Homo Oeconomicus, a human who approaches all problems in a rational and typically selfish way and who possesses boundless computational power and flawless ...

Life Satisfaction in Adult Survivors of Cancer During Adolescence: What Contributes to the Latter Satisfaction of Life?

Purpose To compare the general and health-related life satisfaction (LS) in long-term survivors of adolescent cancer with a community sample and to identify medical and psychosocial factors associated with LS. Methods LS of 820 survivors (ageM = 30.4 ± 6.0 years; time since diagnosis M = 13.7 ± 6.0 years) was assessed with the Questions on Life Satisfaction (FLZM) and compared to an age- and sex-matched ...

A distribution-sensitive examination of the gender wage gap in Germany

This paper provides a new examination of the gender pay gap for Germany based on a family of distribution-sensitive indicators. Wage distributions for men and women do not only differ by a fixed constant; differences are more complex. We show that focusing on the bottom of the wage distribution reveals a larger gender gap. Our distribution-sensitive analysis can also be used to study whether the statistical ...

The Interaction between Item, Questionnaire and Unit Nonresponse in the German SOEP

The relationship between women’s work histories and incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany

Using data from several large scale longitudinal surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between older women‟s personal incomes and their work histories in the UK, US and West Germany. By comparing three countries with very different welfare regimes, we seek to gain a better understanding of the interaction between the life course, pension system and women‟s incomes in later life. The association ...

Social, Occupational and Economic Mobility of Mediterranean Migrants in Germany