Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Welfare States, Gender and Poverty

The Gender Division of Welfare - The Impact of the British and German Welfare States

Premiums and Penalties for Over- and Undereducation - Cross-Time and Cross-National Comparisons in the United States and Germany

Premiums and penalties for surplus and deficit education - Evidence from the United States and Germany

The Syracuse University Panel Study of Income Dynamics and German Socio-Economic Panel Equivalent Data File

A New Look at the Distributional Effects of Economic Growth during the 1980s: A Comparative Study of the United States and Germany

Beginning in 1983, and following the worst recession since the Great Depression, the United States experienced six years of uninterrupted economic growth, the longest such period since World War II. Along with this expansion came an increase in income inequality that many suggest diminished the middle class and made the United States unique among industrialized nations in its pace of economic growth ...

Managing the Public Use Version of the German Socio-Economic Panel with SAS

Cross-national trends in earnings inequality and instability

Unfairness at work: Well-being and quits

We here consider the effect of the level of income that individuals consider to be fair for the job they do, which we take as measure of comparison income, on both subjective well-being and objective future job quitting. In six waves of German Socio-Economic Panel data, the extent to which own labour income is perceived to be unfair is significantly negatively correlated with subjective well-being, ...

Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link