Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Health and Lifestyle in Rural Northeast Germany

Secular trends in health-related behavior, the frequency of illness, and life satisfaction in rural areas are inadequately documented. Such information is essential for the planning of health-care policy. In 1973 and 1994, surveys were performed on the health and lifestyle of all adult inhabitants of 14 selected rural communities in the northern part of the former East Germany. The inhabitants were ...

Unemployment and Health Impairments: Longitudinal Analyses for the Federal Republic of Germany

Immigrants and Health: Unemployment and Health-Risks of Labour Migrants in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1984-1992

Poverty Changes for Single Parent Households -An Application of Dominance Relations-

Buffering income loss due to unemployment: Family and welfare state influences on income after job loss in the United States and western Germany

This article analyzes how the family and the welfare state influence household income trajectories after job loss in the United States and in western Germany. Drawing on panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), I study the income buffering effects of the family and the welfare state in the short an in the long run after job loss. I demonstrate ...

Job loss among rich and poor in the United States and Germany: Who loses more income?

This article compares household income losses after involuntary job loss between household income quintiles in the United States and Germany. I argue that income trajectories after job loss vary between social strata in country-specific ways because of differences in the labor market, the family and the welfare state. Using panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic ...

Couples’ Strategies after Job Loss in West Germany and the United States – The Added Worker Effect and Linked Life Courses

In couple households, income losses due to men’s displacements may be offset by an increase in women’s earnings, the so called “Added Worker Effect” (AWE). I argue that previous research largely neglected the variation of the AWE due to intra-household characteristics. Following the idea of “linked life courses”, intra-household processes have an influence on the AWE and that this influence is structured ...

The Impact of Losing Your Job: Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany

Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it’s only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made returning to the labor market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income, family life, ...

CHINTEX - Synopsis -

Stability of Life-Satisfaction over Time. Analysis of change in ranks in a national population