Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Alcohol: Does It Make You Successful? A Longitudinal Analysis

This thesis analyzes the link between alcohol consumption and labor market outcomes, such as income, employment or hazard rate of leaving unemployment. It does so by using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) forthe period 2006 until 2010. While cross-sectional methods show a positive relationship between non-abusive alcohol consumption and labor market outcomes, fixed effects methods ...

Biographical Consequences of Teenage Motherhood in Germany

It is commonly held that teenage motherhood negatively impacts the mother’s further life course. This paper deals with the question of the consequences teenage motherhood has on the long run for the young mother’s educational and employment career as well as for partnership stability. To explore the research questions linear and logistic regressions based on the SOEP (1984 – 2009) are conducted. In ...

(Wieder-)Vereinigung der Jugend?: Lebensbedingungen und Zukunftserwartungen ost- und westdeutscher Jugendlicher nach der Wende

Who Dares, Wins? - A sibling analysis of tertiary education transition in Germany

Past studies have found that parental background has a considerable impact on educational decisions. Our knowledge is, however, still limited regarding educational transitions later in life, such as into tertiary education. Is parental background a predominant factor in this relatively late educational decision, or do individual talent and determination have an impact of their own? We address this ...

Das Arbeitsangebot verheirateter Frauen in den neuen und alten Bundesländern: Eine semiparametrische Regressionsanalyse

In diesem Beitrag wird eine Regressionsanalyse vorgestellt, die die Einflüsse auf die Entscheidung verheirateter deutscher Frauen untersucht, eine Erwerbstätigkeit aufzunehmen. Um Differenzen im Verhalten von ost- und westdeutschen Frauen zu ermitteln, erfolgte die Untersuchung getrennt in zwei Datensätzen. Zur Vermeidung von Annahmen über die Art des Zusammenhanges wurde das Generalisierte Additive ...

Hohe Erwerbsbereitschaft ostdeutscher Frauen unabhängig vom Einkommensniveau

Labor Supply Decisions in Germany - A Semiparametric Regression Analysis

Weiterentwicklung des Niedrigeinkommen-Panels - Expertise im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung

Residential mobility in East and West Germany: mobility rates, mobility reasons, reurbanization

Before unification, the processes of residential mobility in East and West Germany were very different, and remarkable variations in mobility still persisted until the mid 1990s. Following a wave of residential suburbanization and of heavy residential construction, as well as refurbishments in the new Länder during the second half of the 1990s, mobility rates strongly increased in East Germany. After ...

Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Unrelated Between Countries, Associated Within Countries Over Time

This article shows for the first time that people are less satisfied when inequality in their country is higher than before, but not when inequality in their country is higher than in another country. It distinguishes this between- and within-country effect of inequality on life satisfaction by using hybrid regressions with the World Values Survey, the British Household Panel Study, the Australian ...