Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

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. ...

Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an instrumental variable strategy and utilizing the variation in the population share of foreigners across regions ...

Siblings, Their Sex Composition and Educational Attainment in Germany

Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case

Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior

Employer learning and the returns to schooling