Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Life Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask subjects to report (a) how their income compares ...

Fördert Partizipation am Arbeitsplatz die Entwicklung des politischen Interesses und der politischen Beteiligung? Does workplace participation further the development of political interest and political participation?

Die vorliegende Untersuchung geht in Anlehnung an die von Pateman entwickelten Spillover-Hypothese der Frage nach, ob und wie sich berufliche Partizipation auf das Ausmaß von politischem Interesse und politischer Beteiligung auswirken. Auf der Basis von Längsschnittdaten des Sozioökonomischen Panels stellt sich heraus, dass sich das politische Interesse intraindividuell verstärkt, wenn die berufliche ...

Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education to data for the USA, the UK and Germany. We find that in residual wage variation, uncertainty by far dominates unobserved heterogeneity. The relation between uncertainty and level of education is not monotonic and differs among countries.

Child Care Center Quality: Measurement Issues and Links to Child Developmental Outcomes

Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany

Drawing on the embeddedness, varieties of capitalism and macrosociological life course perspectives, we examine how institutional arrangements affect network-based job finding behaviors in the United States and Germany. Analysis of cross-national survey data reveals that informal job matching is highly clustered among specific types of individuals and firms in the United States, whereas it is more ...

Search, Effort, and Locus of Control

We test the hypothesis that locus of control - one’s perception of control over events in life - influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are increasing in the belief that one’s efforts influence outcomes when subjects exert effort without knowing how effort influences the generation of offers but ...

Who benefits? A Comparison of Welfare and Outcomes for the Unemployed in Britain and Germany (Dissertation)

How do different welfare states respond to the challenge of unemployment? Comparing Britain and Germany in the 1990s, the main focus of this thesis is on how welfare policies affect outcomes for individuals unemployed persons. The interaction of the state, labour markets and household structures is considered crucial in understanding these outcomes. The selection of countries – Britain and Germany ...

Welfare States, Labour Market Institutions and the Working Poor: A Comparative Analysis of 20 European Countries

This article regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. It combines a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models. The basis for the analysis is micro-data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2005 and macro-data from sources such as the OECD and Eurostat. The broad comparative ...

The working poor in European welfare states: empirical evidence from a multilevel perpective

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