Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Für viele klingt die Idee erst einmal sympathisch : Interview

30 Jahre SOEP: Eine Chronik des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Befragungsgestützte Messung von Gesundheit: Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick

Discrete Heterogeneity in the Impact of Health Shocks on Labour Market Outcomes

Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality

Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students’ resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether positive control beliefs work as a psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected group of full-time employed men of ...

Lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of risk preferences

We investigate which socioeconomic groups are most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse using data from a nationally representative German survey and methods to separate age from cohort and period effects. Tolerance to risk drops by 0.5 SD across all socioeconomic groups from late adolescence up to age 45. From age 45 socioeconomic gradients emerge – risk tolerance continues ...

Between Life Cycle Model, Labor Market Integration and Discrimination: An Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Return Migration

This paper studies the determinants of return migration by applying the Cox hazard model to longitudinal micro data from 1996 to 2012, including immigrants of a wide range of nationalities. The empirical results reveal the validity of the life cycle model of Migration Economics and a strong return probability decreasing effect of labor market integration and societal integration. Modeling non-proportional ...

Substantial Labor Market Effects of the Residency Status: How Important are Initial Conditions At Arrival for Immigrants?

This paper uses information on the legal status upon arrival to study long-term labor market effects, whereas selection and potential outmigration are taken into account by a large set of methods. I find that immigrants arrived with a job commitment in Germany achieve a longterm income advantage of 18.6% relative to other migrant groups, while language skills and ethnic networks can be excluded as ...

The Impact of Language Skills on Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration: A Brief Revision With a New Approach

I examine the impact of language skills on immigrants’ labor market performance by applying a new approach, which allows to estimate wage benefits attributed to initial language skills at arrival. By exploiting unique data, I isolate the endogenous part of current German skills and instrument current command by German proficiency measured retrospectively at the point in time of migration. This approach ...