Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Einkommensmobilität: Die meisten Söhne verdienen mehr als ihre Väter

Der Einfluss der familiären Herkunft auf das Einkommen ist geringer als oft angenommen. Das legt zumindest eine Studie des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) nahe.

Immer mehr Privatschulen: Ein Misstrauensvotum der Eltern gegen den Staat

Arbeitsmarktstrukturierung und Übergang in den Ruhestand (Diplomarbeit)

Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

We outline a formal procedure for deriving the aggregate wage-elasticity of labor supply for a large group of heterogeneous workers who operate under uncertainty. Heterogeneity relates to preferences, income, wealth, and the labor market status. If each worker faces a small, possibly nonuniform wage change, the implied aggregate wage-elasticity can be represented by a closed-form expression. This expression ...

The Effects of Mobility on Neighbourhood Social Ties

This research examines the strength of people’s ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP). All forms of mobility have increased over time and are negatively associated with visiting ...

Income Comparisons among Neighbours and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany

This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) to investigate whether changes in others' income are perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative and slightly more marked in neighbourhoods where the neighbours interact socially. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income ...

Neighbourhood social ties: how much do residential, physical and virtual mobility matter?

Following up on the prediction by classical sociological theorists that neighbours will become irrelevant as societies become more mobile, this research examines the strength of people’s social ties with neighbours and the associations thereof with residential, physical and virtual mobility using longitudinal data for Germany. Unlike previous studies, the research considers the three forms of mobility ...

Keeping up with the Schmidts - An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context

We test empirically whether people’s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory suggests that individuals are happier the better their relative income position in the neighbourhood is. To test ...

Armut und Alter

Regional Data in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)