Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also by real wage losses below the median. Coverage ...

Do Social Relationships Buffer the Effects of Widowhood? A Prospective Study of Adaptation to the Loss of a Spouse

The idea that strong social relationships can buffer the negative effects of stress on well-being has received much attention in existing literature. However, previous studies have used less than ideal research designs to test this hypothesis, making it difficult to draw firm conclusions regarding the buffering effects of social support. In this study, we examined the buffering hypothesis in the context ...

The Validity of the Day Reconstruction Method in the German Socio-economic Panel Study

The Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) is a useful tool for evaluating short-term changes in emotional experiences over a variety of daily situations. However, traditional method of collecting DRM data can be time-intensive for both researchers and participants. In this paper we provide evidence that a random-sampling approach to DRM assessment can provide useful data that are largely consistent with ...

Stability and Change of Personality Traits, Self-Esteem, and Well-Being: Introducing the Meta-Analytic Stability and Change Model of Retest Correlations

The stability of individual differences is a fundamental issue in personality psychology. Although accumulating evidence suggests that many psychological attributes are both stable and change over time, existing research rarely takes advantage of theoretical models that capture both stability and change. In this article, we present the Meta-Analytic Stability and Change model (MASC), a novel meta-analytic ...

Lebenserwartung: Reiche Frauen leben länger

Flexibilität und Beschäftigungswandel

Heute sind etwa 40 Prozent aller Beschäftigungsverhältnisse atypisch. Zehn Jahre nach der Hartz-Gesetzgebung geht das Buch nicht nur den politischen und wirtschaftlichen Ursachen für die Expansion atypischer Beschäftigung auf den Grund, sondern eruiert auch die Folgen dieser Expansion für die Entstehung neuer sozialer Risiken. Hierbei spielt die Neujustierung zwischen interner und externer Flexibilität ...

Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health

We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of income on health, as the amount won by winners is largely exogenous. Positive income shocks have no significant ...

Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle

Alterssicherung in Deutschland - Datenlage und Datenanalyse

Die Lebenssituation alleinstehender Frauen