Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Pathways to retirement: Are they related to patterns of short- and long-term subjective well-being?

We examine the association between pathways to retirement and patterns of subjective well-being in Germany. We argue that short-term development of subjective well-being is related to social status changes while long-term development of subjective well-being is related to resources and changes in life circumstances. Importantly, we expect that how a person's social status changes and his/her access ...

Technical Specifications of the PACO database

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Equivalence Scales and the Cost of Children: The Case of Household Splits in Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Couple households may separate over time. The OECD equivalence scale is used to compare the income situation of post separation households with the pre-separation households. This scale makes assumptions about the needs of adults and children as well as economies of scale. The impact of these assumptions is checked by varying the economy of scale factor; varying the cost of a child and varying the ...

Variable Specification for the PACO database

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Pattern of Retirement and Exiting Out of Work

Consequences of Job Mobility for the Subsequent Earnings at the Beginning of the Employment Career in Germany and the UK

Using the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984 – 2006 and British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) this paper investigates job-to-job mobility (direct job mobility) and job mobility via unemployment (indirect job mobility) at the beginning of the employment career in Germany and the UK. The analyses show that, in Germany’s rigid labour market, direct voluntary job mobility brings permanent income rewards. ...

The Consequences of Job Mobility for Future Earnings in Early Working Life in Germany - Placing Indirect and Direct Job Mobility into Institutional Context

This article investigates direct job mobility and job mobility via unemployment at the beginning of the employment career in Germany. While the rationale of predicting outcomes of direct job mobility are similar in liberal countries, Germany’s rigid labour market might have different implications for job mobility via unemployment. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984–2006, we will address the ...

Qualifikationsspezifische Übergänge aus befristeter Beschäftigung am Erwerbsanfang – zwischen Screening und Flexibilisierung

In der vorliegenden Studie werden die Folgen befristeter Beschäftigung am Anfang der Erwerbskarriere für unterschiedliche Qualifikationsgruppen in Deutschland zwischen 1984 und 2010 untersucht. Dazu werden auf Basis der 8. Etappe des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS-E8) Übergänge aus befristeten Erstbeschäftigungen mittels ereignisdatenanalytischer Methoden untersucht. Wie sich zeigt, hängen die Chancen ...