Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The double German transformation: Changing male employment patterns in East and West Germany

Before the 90s, men’s employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany and almost all East German institutions were supplanted by adapted West German ...

Parenthood and Subsequent Employment: Changes in the Labor Participation of Fathers Across Cohorts as Compared to Mothers

In the literature there is plenty of evidence available on the effect of childbearing on female employment biographies. In the present paper, we extend the analysis to men and show how parenthood differently affects employment biographies of men and women. We also investigate how these differences change with time. Concretely, we are interested in the question whether in the process of social change ...

Separate paths, same direction? De-standardization of male employment biographies in East and West Germany

Until the mid-1980s, labour markets in Germany were characterized by a high level of employment stability. Employment biographies of men were dominated by full-time employment in both East and West Germany and were hence quite similar in this respect, despite the two regions’ enormously different institutional settings. Since that time however, important changes have occurred. Labour markets have become ...

Komponenten und subjektive Determinanten der langfristigen Entwicklung des Arbeitsangebots - Die "Stillen Reserven" sind größer, als man denkt

Die Situation älterer Menschen in der Phase nach dem Erwerbsleben

Ehrenamtliches Engagement von Frauen als Arbeitsmarktstrategie?

What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? - Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Happiness and altruism within the extended family

We propose a direct measure of altruism between parents and adult children, using survey data on happiness from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000–2004. The question of altruism within families has policy relevance, for example, to understand whether public transfers crowd out private ones. Previous empirical evidence, based on observed transfer behavior, has failed to establish a clear ...

Is Posner right? An empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Posner (Aging and old age, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman’s utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present ...

Ist der Euro ein Teuro? Eine vergleichende Analyse der Zufriedenheit mit dem Haushaltseinkommen in Deutschland und Großbritannien

Als das Euro-Bargeld Anfang 2002 in Umlauf kam, war überall zu hören: „Alles ist teurer geworden!“ Doch was entsprach einer gefühlten Inflation und was einer tatsächlichen Wohlfahrtsänderung? Der Artikel geht dieser Frage nach und stellt einen Vergleich mit einem Nicht-Euro-Land, Großbritannien, an.