Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away From the Host Country

The importance of repeat and circular migration starts receiving rising recognition. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from the German guestworker experience. Beyond the myth, more than 60% of migrants in the sample from the guestworker countries living in Germany are indeed ...

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! Survey design and the analysis of satisfaction

A comparison of initial and early life course earnings of the German secondary education and training system

The Gendered Division of Labor and Family Outcomes in Germany

Doing" Gender in Context: Household Bargaining and Risk of Divorce in Germany and the United States

Persistent Policy Effects on the Division of Domestic Tasks in Reunified Germany

Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context

We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-a-vis macro and micro effects of wives’ employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives’ employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and ...

Inequality across the Generations in North America and Europe

Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in Rich Countries

Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility