Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Equity-regarding poverty measures: Differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales

Indicators of Social Isolation: A Comparison Based on Survey Data from Germany

The paper presents a data-based comparison of three indicators of social isolation that are frequently used in contemporary social research: (a) low frequency of social contact with friends, relatives, and neighbors (social contact indicator); (b) absence of a discussion network (discussion network indicator); (c) absence of social support (support indicator). All three indicators are in line with ...

Recall – A way to mitigate adverse effects of unemployment on earnings across occupations?

We examine the reemployment earnings of workers reemployed by a former employer (known as recall) across different occupations. We first ask whether recalls represent a flexibilization strategy that mitigates adverse unemployment effects on workers’ earnings. And second, whether there are any differences in post-unemployment earnings of recalled workers across different occupations. The article contributes ...

Dynamic modeling of fertility and labor market participation of married and cohabiting women

We model jointly fertility and participation decisions of the women who live in couple using a dynamic model. We analyze, for the period going from 1994 to 2001, the labor supply and the fertility decision of married or cohabiting women in France, Spain, Germany, United-Kingdom and Denmark. We estimate a dynamic bivariate probit model with random effects using the ECHP (European Community household ...

Need for conclusive evidence that positive and negative reciprocity are unrelated

Non-migrants' interethnic relationships with migrants: the role of the residential area, the workplace, and attitudes toward migrants from a longitudinal perspective

This paper studies the determinants of interethnic relationships between non-migrants and migrants in Germany. A large body of literature documents that such relationships generate positive outcomes for individual migrants as well as non-migrants and the social cohesion of host-societies at large. Previous research tends to focus on the migrant side, thereby neglecting the factors enabling non-migrants? ...

The Informed Consent to Record Linkage in Panel Studies: Optimal Starting Wave, Consent Refusals, and Subsequent Panel Attrition

Social scientists increasingly link survey data with administrative records. However, data protection legislation often requires respondents’ informed consent prior to record linkage. This has confronted research with nontrivial refusal rates in combination with selectivity of the consent decision. In longitudinal surveys, linkage requests may also increase attrition rates in subsequent waves, as many ...

Wage Dips and Drops around First Birth

Would You Marry Me? The Effects of Marriage on German Couples' Allocation of Time

Providing Data on the European Level

This paper reviews the potential demand for and the provision of European data for social scientific research. The concept of data provision is defined broadly, covering the ease with which specific types of data can be discovered, interpreted, readily understood and accessed by researchers. The paper is structured as follows. First, it addresses the issue of why researchers need European (as opposed ...