Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

A feasible basic income scheme for Germany

Germany's social security system and its income taxation suffers from intransparent and inefficient interdependencies between the two systems. Additionally, work incentives of the current unemployment benefits are reduced by high implicit marginal tax rates. Due to these inconsistencies there is an ongoing debate in politics and economics to replace the current regulations with an unconditional ...

Studie des Roman-Herzog-Instituts: Die deutsche Mittelschicht: stabil, aber verunsichert

Die Coronakrise sorgt für Abstiegsängste bis in die Mitte der Gesellschaft hinein. Die hat sich bis zum Ausbruch der Pandemie aber erstaunlich stabil gezeigt, wie eine Studie zeigt.

Selbstständige: Nur geringe Sorgen vor Altersarmut

Arbeitnehmer sind mit Blick auf ihre Alterssicherung etwas skeptischer als Selbstständige.

Trends of healthy and unhealthy working life expectancy in Germany between 2001 and 2020 at ages 50 and 60: a question of educational level?

Background: Extending the number of active working years is an important goal both for maintaining individual quality of life and safeguarding social security systems. Against this background, we examined the development of healthy and unhealthy working life expectancy (HWLE/UHWLE) in the general population and for different educational groups. Methods: The study is based on data from the German Socio-Economic ...

Trends in good self-rated health in Germany between 1995 and 2014: do age and gender matter?

Objectives: This study analyzes longitudinal trends in self-rated health (SRH) by taking age- and gender-specific differences into account. Methods: Data of 29,251 women and 26,967 men were obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1995 and 2014. Generalized Estimation Equation analysis for logistic regression was used to estimate changes in odds of (very) good SRH over time. Development ...

The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data

This replication revisits an influential contribution on the intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes, which, based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), reveals a positive correlation between parents' and children's attitudes. The authors of the original study argue that socialization in the family is important in the transmission process. The replication ...

From feeling depressed to getting diagnosed: Determinants of a diagnosis of depression after experiencing symptoms

Background:Receiving a formal diagnosis for a depressive disorder is a prerequisite for getting treatment, yet the illness inherently complicates care-seeking. Thus, understanding the process from depression symptoms to diagnosis is crucial.Aims:This study aims to disentangle (1) risk factors for depression symptoms from (2) facilitators and barriers to receiving a diagnosis after experiencing depression ...

Keine sinkenden Ausgaben durch höhere Hürden

Der Beruf prägt dich. Zum Glück.

Work-Life-Balance ist nicht alles im Leben. Wie die Berufstätigkeit die Persönlichkeit prägt.

Unemployment, unemployment duration, and health: selection or causation?

This study aims at disentangling the causal effects of unemployment on physical and mental health from the selection of the unhealthy into unemployment. To identify causal effects, it explores hypotheses concerning how physical and mental health deterioration gain additional momentum with a longer duration of unemployment. In contrast, mere selection into unemployment implies time-constant effects ...