Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Zur langfristigen Tragfähigkeit der öffentlichen Haushalte in Deutschland - eine Analyse anhand der Generationenbilanzierung

In and out of employment: Effects in panel and life-history data

Longitudinal data collected through panel studies or life-history surveys represent a rich source for analysing movements in the labour market over the life-course. However, concerns arise over the proper design to collect these data reliably. This paper addresses the substantive issue related to the determinants of movements in the labour market tackling the methodological concerns referring the reliability ...

Explaining differences in labour market transitions between panel and life-course data in West-Germany

Panel and life-course data are ideally suited to unravelling labour market dynamics, but their designs differ, with potential consequences for the estimated relationships. To gauge the extent to which these two data designs produce dissimilar transition rates and the causation thereof, we use the German Life History Study and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Life-course data in particular suffer from ...

Early Unemployment and Subsequent Career Complexity: A Sequence-Based Perspective

We aim to examine how previous unemployment affects future unemployment and career complexity over the life course. Theory suggests that unemployment triggers negative chains of ‘low-pay-no-pay’ circles. Using longitudinal data on men aged 18-64 from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we employ sequence-based methods to quantify career complexity and dynamic panel models to test our hypotheses about ...

Der Einfluss von Erhebungsformen auf den Postmaterialismus-Index

This article reports on a meta-analysis of 99 German population surveys from the GESIS Data Archive, all containing the postmaterialism question. Using multi-level modelling, it can be shown that the share of postmaterialists significantly varies between the surveys when controlling for respondents‘ year of birth and survey year. These differences can partly be attributed to varying forms of data collection. ...

The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses – Evidence from plant closures in Germany

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing ...

Four Essays on Causal Inference in Health Economics (Dissertation)

Arbeitslosigkeit trifft auch den Partner

Arbeitslosigkeit beeinträchtigt die psychische Gesundheit des Partners fast genauso stark wie die des Arbeitslosen. Die Auswirkungen auf die psychische Gesundheit hängen nicht davon ab, welcher Partner arbeitslos wird: Sowohl Frauen als auch Männer leiden unter der Arbeitslosigkeit des Lebensgefährten. Zu diesen Ergebnissen kommt eine Studie des DIW Berlin auf Grundlage von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen ...

Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behaviour and body weight using German SOEP data. Baseline non-smokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify smoking. In particular, single individuals and those with lower health or socioeconomic status prior to job loss exhibit high rates of smoking initiation. Job loss increases body weight ...

Ausbau der Ganztagsschule: Kinder aus einkommensschwachen Haushalten im Westen nutzen Angebote verstärkt

Der Anteil von Grundschulkindern, die ganztägig zur Schule gehen, ist in den letzten Jahren stark gestiegen. Maßgeblich dazu beigetragen hat das Investitionsprogramm „Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung“ (IZBB), mit dem der Bund die Länder seit 2003 beim Ausbau der Ganztagsschule unterstützt. Doch welche Kinder nutzen Ganztagsschulen? Welche sozioökonomischen Merkmale haben ihre Familien? Setzt sich die ...