Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Reliability of educational attainment of survey respondents: an overlooked barrier to comparability?

Educational attainment is vital in social science research for analysing socioeconomic inequalities, labour market outcomes, and health disparities. Harmonisation schemes such as the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) and its survey-specific adaptation EDULVLB aim to standardise educational classifications across countries, enabling international comparability. Despite their ...

How a Mismatch Between Actual and Desired Fertility Relates to Well-Being Across Adulthood

ABSTRACT Introduction Most people want two or more children, but many do not realize their fertility desires. At the same time, recent studies suggest that up to 15% of parents regret having children. To investigate how fertility mismatch relates to well-being (i.e., affect balance, life satisfaction, family life satisfaction, and work satisfaction), this preregistered study used nationally representative ...

Lohnt sich ein CAWI-Follow-Up für Face-to-Face? : Erste Ergebnisse aus der IAB-BAMF-SOEP-Befragung von Geflüchteten

Health shocks and health behavior: a long-term perspective

Several empirical papers suggest that individuals improve health-related behaviors in response to adverse shocks to physical health. However, little evidence exists regarding the questions of (i) how long-lasting these behavioral responses are and (ii) whether individuals respond similarly to mental health shocks. Using individual-level survey data from Germany and combining regression augmented inverse-probability ...

The hiring of older workers: evidence from Germany

This article analyses how hiring older workers adjusts to demographic change in the labour force by using information from more than 500,000 firms in Germany. We find robust evidence that firms faced with an ageing labour market hire relatively more older workers. However, the pace of this adjustment is relatively slow, particularly when ageing happens outside the firm. The tendency to employ older ...

Motherhood penalty in consumption

We examine how labor market disruptions following childbirth relate to intra-household consumption inequality in the long run. Novel survey data from Germany shows that women less educated than their partners are more likely to report child-related career interruptions and receive a smaller share of household consumption, relative to women more educated than their spouses. Moreover, conditioning on ...

The Distribution of National Income in Germany, 1992-2019

This paper analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since 1992, combining personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. Inequality rose from the 1990s to the late 2000s due to falling labor incomes among the bottom 50% and rising incomes in the top 10%. This trend reversed after 2007 as labor incomes across the bottom 90% increased. ...

The distribution of national income in Germany, 1992–2019

This paper estimates and analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since reunification, combining personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. We find that pre-tax national income inequality has increased since the 1990s, though to a lesser extent than suggested by previous studies. Our results draw parallels in top income structure ...

Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf Löhne und Arbeitszeiten (MLK-027)

Performance Pay and Happiness: Work vs. Home?

Using German survey data, we show conflicting influences of performance pay on overall life satisfaction. The overall influence reflects a strong positive influence through domains of life satisfaction associated with the job (job satisfaction, individual earnings satisfaction and household earning satisfaction) and a strong negative influence through domains away from the job (health satisfaction, ...