Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Onset of disability and life satisfaction: evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

This paper analyses the effect of the onset of disability on the well-being of individuals. In particular, we are interested in studying whether people can adapt to disability over time after its onset. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the period 1984–2006, we estimate life satisfaction equations using a fixed-effects model for working-age males (aged 21–58). ...

Longitudinal Analysis of the Domains of Satisfaction Before and After Disability: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of the onset of disability on life satisfaction and five different domains of satisfaction (health, household income, housing, job, leisure) for German individuals. Particular attention is paid to examining whether individuals can adapt to disability over time before and after its onset in terms of satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German ...

Disability, Training and Job Satisfaction

This study analyses the effects of participating in further training on the levels of job satisfaction reported by workers without and with disabilities in Germany. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel which covers the period 1989–2008, we estimate a “Probit Adapted OLS (POLS)” model which allows us to identify the determinants of job satisfaction for people without and with ...

The Impact of Educational Attainment on Labor Market Outcomes

Existenzgründung und Einkommen Freier Berufe - Ergebnisse aus dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel

Informationelle Zugänge für die empirische Untersuchung freiberuflicher Existenzgründungen

Gründungsaktivität und Gründungserfolg von Freiberuflern - Eine empirische Mikroanalyse mit dem Sozio-ökonomischen Panel (Schriften des Forschungsinstituts Freie Berufe (FFB))

Jugendliche beim Übergang in eine betriebliche Berufsausbildung und in die Erwerbstätigkeit

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Evaluating Patterns of Income Growth when Status Matters: A Robust Approach

This paper addresses the problem of ranking growth episodes from a microeconomic perspective. While most of the existing criteria, framed in the pro-poor growth tradition, are either based on anonymous individuals or are used to identify them on the basis of their status in the initial period, this paper proposes new criteria to evaluate growth, which are robust to the choice of the reference period ...