Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The Effects of Flexible Work Practices on Employee Attitudes: Evidence from a Large-Scale Panel Study in Germany

We explore the effects of flexible work practices (FWPs) on the work attitudes (job satisfaction and turnover intention) and non-work attitudes (leisure satisfaction and perceived health) of employees based on representative large-scale German panel data. Because unobserved individual characteristics can easily act as confounders, we estimate both pooled OLS models and individual fixed-effects models. ...

Einkommensungleichheit und Gesundheit – Eine Analyse mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) 1998-2003

Sozial differentielle Mortalität – Zum Einfluss von ökonomischem, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital

Soziale Unterschiede in der Lebenserwartung. Datenquellen in Deutschland und Analysemöglichkeiten des SOEP

This paper describes the potential of analysing socio-economic inequalities in life expectancy using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). It includes a short review on available data sources and recent evidence on inequalities in life expectancy for Germany. Subsequently the characteristics of the SOEP and some issues regarding the analysis of mortality using the data are discussed. The main ...

Zunehmende Unterschiede im subjektiven Gesundheitszustand zwischen den Einkommensschichten - Analyse zu einem Aspekt der gesundheitlichen Ungleichheit

In der politischen Diskussion wird seit einiger Zeit eine Angleichung des Rentenrechts in den alten und neuen Bundesländern thematisiert. Momentan werden Arbeitnehmer in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern anders behandelt als Arbeitnehmer im Westen, um das unterschiedliche Lohnniveau in Ost und West bei der Berechnung der Renten auszugleichen. Eine auf Dauer angelegte unterschiedliche Behandlung der Löhne ...

Direct costs of inequalities in health care utilization in Germany 1994 to 2009: a top-down projection

Social inequalities in health are a characteristic of almost all European Welfare States. It has been estimated, that this is associated with annual costs that amount to approximately 9% of total member state GDP. We investigated the influence of inequalities in German health care utilization on direct medical costs. We used longitudinal data from a representative panel study (German Socio-Economic ...

Entwicklung und Einflussgrößen der gesunden Lebenserwartung

Kompression oder Expansion der Morbidität? (Kapitel 2.5)

Relative Income, Labour Supply, and Home Production

A weighty issue revisited: the dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany

We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous findings, our dynamic models indicate an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages. As the implied maximum occurs in the ‘overweight’ category, the positive trend in weight may not yet constitute a major limitation to productivity. ...