Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country

While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how natural disasters affect individual saving decisions. This study makes use of a natural experiment created ...

Language-Skill Complementary: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

Multidimensionality of Well-Being and Spillover Effects Across Life Domains: How Do Parenthood and Personality Affect Changes in Domain-Specific Satisfaction?

Whether having children improves our well-being is a long-standing topic of debate. Demographic and sociological research has investigated changes in individuals’ overall well-being and partnership satisfaction when they become parents. However, little is known about how becoming parent may produce vulnerability—observable as an enduring decrease in well-being—in life domains that are strongly interdependent ...

SDC - The GSOEP Data Cleaner: A Programm Package for Generating New Income Data from the Original Data in the German Socio-Economic Panel

The Struggle between Equity and Efficiency: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Area Variations in Income, and in Poverty, across the EU

Patterns of poverty across Europe

Diverse Europe. Mapping patterns of social change across the EU

Social Europe - Living Standards and Welfare States

Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the GSOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment prospects. The panel setup and richness of the data allows us to overcome some of the identification problems which are present in this strand of literature. ...