Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Job Change, Occupational Mobility and Earnings Mobility for Manual Workers in the US and Western Germany

Education, Earnings Gain, and Earnings Loss in Loosely and Tightly Structured Labor Markets: A Comparison between the United States and Germany

Institutions, Technical Change, and Diverging Life Chances: Earnings Mobility in the U.S. and Germany

Income Components and the Stability of Family Income in Western Germany and the United States

The Sensitivity of Family Income to Changes in Family Structure and Job Change in the United States and Germany

Family Change, Employment Transitions, and the Welfare State: A Comparison of Household Income Dynamics in the U.S. and Germany

Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany: patterns and developments

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant to the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with teenage age and education, with the income of the ...

Do working hours affect health? Evidence from statutory workweek regulations in Germany

This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an instrumental variable. Using panel data, we run two-stage least squares regressions controlling for individual-specific ...

Discursive Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigrants: Political Parties and Mass Media as Contextual Sources of Threat Perceptions

Immigration has been a vividly discussed topic in Europe in recent years, leading to an increased polarisation in many Western societies. This relates to rising immigration rates as well as to significant, dramatic events such as terrorist attacks and acts of xenophobic violence. A plethora of studies has investigated the impact of a country’s actual immigration on individual attitudes towards migrants. ...

Encouraging Governments to Enhance the Happiness of Their Nation: Step 1: Understand Subjective Well-Being