Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Do Germans Save to Leave an Estate? An Examination of the Bequest Motive

The Distribution of the German Public-Private Wage Gap

Age, Cohort, and the Slump of Job Satisfaction among West German Workers

Using German panel data, I examine the long-term development in satisfaction with work from 1984 until 2001. As was the case for many other industrialized countries, Germany witnessed a sharp decline in workers’ self-reported job satisfaction in the late 1980s and 1990s, the reason of which is yet unknown. I present a cohort analysis of job satisfaction using various identifying assumptions to examine ...

Unemployment, recall error, and life satisfaction

The Welfare Costs of Addiction

The Geographic Mobility of Dual-Earner Couples: Does Gender Ideology Matter?

Retrospective Error in SOEP Calendar Data: The Case of Unemployment

Occupational Mobility in Germany

Occupational Affiliation Data and Measurement Errors in the German Socio-Economic Panel

This paper shows that there are severe measurement errors regarding the occupational affiliations in the German Socio-Economic Panel. These errors are traced back to the survey structure: in years where occupational information is gathered from the entire employed population instead of only from those declaring job or labor market status changes, average occupational mobility is around five times higher. ...

Worker Reallocation across Occupations in Western Germany

This paper analyzes the determinants of annual worker reallocation across disaggregated occupations in western Germany for the period 1985-2003. Employing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the pattern of average occupational mobility is documented. Worker reallocation is found to be strongly procyclical. Its determinants at the individual level are then investigated while controlling for unobserved ...