Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Heterogeneity in Trajectories of Life Satisfaction After Reunification: The Role of Individual Resources and Life Stage in Former East Germany

For people living in the former East Germany, reunification with the former West Germany fundamentally transformed the sociopolitical system and most domains of everyday life. Previous research has revealed temporal shifts in average life satisfaction after reunification in the former East German population as a whole, but so far little is known about heterogeneity in patterns of adjustment within ...

Essays in the Economics of Migration

This thesis consists of three independent articles. In the first chapter, I test whether tipping points can explain observed workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Germany over the period 1990-2010. I reject the hypothesis of tipping dynamics. Furthermore, I show that traditional tests of tipping points based on Regression Discontinuity Designs tend to over-reject the null hypothesis ...

Arbeitsbiografien und Strukturwandel „nach dem Boom“: Lebensläufe und Berufserfahrungen britischer, französischer und westdeutscher Industriearbeiter und -arbeiterinnen von 1970 bis 2000

The article compares life courses and work biographies of industrial workers in West Germany, France and Britain during the period of de-industrialization between the mid-1970s and the year 2000. It discusses continuities and changes of specific patterns in the work biographies of male skilled and unskilled workers, of young people entering the shrinking job market, of migrant workers, and of women. ...

Die soziale Lage erwerbstätiger Rentner

Eine steigende Anzahl von Rentenbeziehern ist zusätzlich noch oder erneut erwerbstätig. Mitunter wird daraus geschlossen, dass das Rentenniveau in vielen Fällen zu niedrig sei, um daraus den Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten. Eine Analyse der sozialen Lage erwerbstätiger Rentner zeigt aber, dass diese in der Regel sogar überdurchschnittliche Einkommen haben.

IW-Studie: Viele Rentner arbeiten nicht aus finanzieller Not

Immer mehr Rentner haben eine Nebentätigkeit. Eine Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass viele von ihnen sehr gut ausgebildet sind und nicht wegen Geldsorgen arbeiten.

Pessimistische Eltern, pessimistische Kinder?: Die beruflichen Zukunftserwartungen Jugendlicher im sozioökonomischen Familienkontext

Socioeconomic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from families of high and low socioeconomic status (SES). We document that children from high-SES families are more intelligent, patient, and altruistic as well as less risk seeking. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we propose a framework of how SES, parental investments, as well as maternal IQ and preferences ...

Limited Self-knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the model predicts that the variance in responses for different characteristics increases in self-knowledge and ...

Worrying about Work? Disentangling the Relationship between Economic Insecurity and Mental Health

Literature encompassing economic insecurity and its relationship with mental health has increased significantly in recent years. While the association of job insecurity and mental health has been researched extensively, less is known about the general relationship between economic insecurity and mental health. This paper analyses the simultaneous influence of six different economic insecurity indicators ...

The private and fiscal returns to higher education

We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we build a dynamic microsimulation model that simulates individual life cycles of a young German cohort in terms of several key variables, such as employment, earnings, ...