Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The role of education and educational-occupational mismatches in decisions regarding commuting and interregional migration from eastern to western Germany

<b>Objective</b>: This paper investigates commuting and interregional migration from eastern to western Germany, and asks, first: Who chooses to migrate and who chooses to commute? Second: Does commuting serve as a stepping-stone or as a long-term alternative to migration? And third: What role does education and educational–occupational mismatch play in those choices? <b>Methods</b>: ...

Migrant’s Pursuit of Happiness. The Impact of Adaptation, Social Comparison and Relative Deprivation: Evidence from a ‘Natural’ Experiment

The German reunification, which several economists have called a “natural” experiment, provides the unique possibility to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the impact of adaptation, social comparison and relative deprivation on the change in SWB associated with moving from Eastern to Western Germany after the German reunification ...

Poverty Permance Among European Youth

Wage Persistence and Labour Market Institutions: An Analysis of Young European Workers

Long-term Care Responsibility and its Opportunity Costs

This paper analyzes the relationship between long-term care provision and the average individual wage rate. In addition, the effects of the number of hours spent on caregiving on the probability of employment as well as on the number of hours worked are examined. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) of 2004 and 2006 is used to analyze caregiving effects on the European labor ...

Informal Caregiving and the Retirement Decision

The probability of providing informal care grows with one's own age. While labor market effects due to caregiving are moderate, they could be concentrated in the years close to retirement. Therefore, I investigate whether care in the previous year leads to retirement in the year after by using German Socio-Economic Panel data from 2001 to 2009 and discrete-time hazard models. The effect of care ...

Informal home care and labor force participation of household members

In Germany, informal home care is preferred to professional care services in the public discussion as well as in legal care regulations. However, only minor importance is ascribed to the opportunity costs caregivers face. Therefore, this article explores the influence home care has on the labor supply of caregivers who cohabitate with the care recipient. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...

Enlargement: The Challenge of Migration from the New Member States

Das Dilemma deutscher Erzieherinnen

Soziale Isolation: Einsamkeit - eine deutsche Tabuzone

Zwei Drittel der Deutschen sehen Einsamkeit als Problem. Sie trifft nicht nur betagte Menschen, sondern fast alle Altersgruppen. In der Politik wächst das Bewusstsein: Es muss etwas geschehen. Annäherung an ein tabuisiertes Gefühl.