Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany

Individuals on the Move - On Some Dynamic Aspects of Social Structures

Differentiation of Life Courses? Changing Patterns of Labor Market Sequences in West Germany

Well-being in Germany. Its happy regions have much in common

Pension Reform in Germany: The Impact on Retirement Decisions

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