Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany - A Discrete Hazard Rate Model Based on a Matched Sample

Estimating the Effect of Vocational Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany - A Discrete Hazard Rate Model with Instrumental Variables

This paper is concerned with the effect of vocational training on individual unemployment duration in West Germany. The data base used in this study is the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1994. The econometric model is a semi-parametric single risk discrete time duration model. To take into account a possible selection bias, an instrumental variable ...

Analyzing the Effects of On-the-Job vs. Off-the-Job Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany

All Goes Faster but Lasts Longer: Computer Work and Overtime Work

Unpaid overtime, the use of personal computers and wage differentials

Socio-economic inequalities in bodily pain over the lifecycle: Longitudinal evidence from Australia, Britain and Germany

We document the extent of socio-economic status (SES) inequalities in bodily pain in Australia, Britain and Germany, with a particular focus on whether such inequalities widen over the life course. Random-effects logistic and kernel regressions are used to estimate odds ratios of experiencing severe pain by income, educational qualification and occupational status, and to graph age–pain profiles, while ...

Research Indicates Happiness is Not Just Gene Deep

Stability and Change in Risk-Taking Propensity Across the Adult Life Span

Can risk-taking propensity be thought of as a trait that captures individual differences across domains, measures, and time? Studying stability in risk-taking propensities across the life span can help to answer such questions by uncovering parallel, or divergent, trajectories across domains and measures. We contribute to this effort by using data from respondents aged 18 to 85 in the German Socio-Economic ...

Income Distribution and the Business Cycle in Germany: A Semiparametric Approach

The question of how the distribution of income is influenced by the state of the economy is important for understanding the economic mechanisms linking micro- and macro-level variables. There is no generally applicable theory on how the distribution of household incomes is influenced by changed macroeconomic conditions. This paper adapts an empirical approach in order to investigate this relationship ...

A Satisfaction-Driven Poverty Indicator - A Bustle Around the Poverty Line

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to explain income dissatisfaction best among all dichotomizations of income. To this end, several model settings are considered including linear and nonlinear ...