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SOEPcampus
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general well-being, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...
16.10.2024| Sandra Bohmann
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
In this special Brownbag Session, we will present the platform SOEP Statistics to receive feedback from the SOEP team before we go into a final pre-launch phase. SOEP Statistics is both a data explorer and a tool to export weighted descriptive statistics of pre-screened longitudinal variables on all SOEP topics. The platform allows users to group data according to a pre-defined selection of...
01.10.2024| Isabel Gebhardt, Dominique Hansen
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Despite millions of war widows worldwide, little is known about the economic consequences of being widowed by war. We use life history data from West Germany to show that war widowhood increased women’s employment immediately after World War II but led to lower employment rates later in life. War widows, therefore, carried a double burden of employment and childcare while their children were young...
17.07.2024| Sebastian Braun, University of Bayreuth
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This study sheds light on the impact of different types of job retention programs such as short-time work (STW). We analyze the causal effect of an episode of STW on labor market outcomes up to five years later and compare this to the effects of sudden unemployment episodes. Using data from German Socio-Economic Panel (1992–2022), we employ an event-study approach to analyze the effect of...
10.07.2024| Clara Schäper
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Current developments in the labor income distribution shape the business cycle and the transmission of fiscal and monetary policy measures. During economic crises, timely and well targeted economic policy becomes essential but the volatility of the (labor) income distribution is particularly high. Detailed distributional data on household incomes becomes available after one year at the earliest....
03.07.2024| Laura Pagenhardt
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Using panel data from Understanding Society, this paper presents a methodology for conceptualising and measuring poor-quality employment in the UK as a distinct concept from job quality. This allows us to identify the most vulnerable employed workers in the UK. Key to this approach is the recognition that poor employment conditions exacerbate each other leading to more intense levels of...
19.06.2024| Kirsten Sehnbruch, London School of Economics and International Inequalities Institute
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Fierce debate over the feasibility of cardinally measuring utility – or ‘wellbeing’ – with surveys has recently resurfaced. Several prominent papers claimed that when interpreting survey data as strictly ordinal, most of the literature’s results are easily reversed. We systematically assess this claim. To do so, we replicate the universe of wellbeing research published in top economics journals...
05.06.2024| Anthony Lepinteur, University of Luxembourg
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Research Project
DECIPHE is the first project to comprehensively study whether and how profound demographic changes in Europe impact the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, considering variations across countries, regions, and birth cohorts.
It adopts a life course framework on housing tenure, in which individuals’ homeownership is shaped by their household members’ preferences and resources and...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study, Life Course and Inequality
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Research Project
To ensure continued survey participation and data quality, the survey landscape must adapt to the changing social reality, especially with regard to mobility and digitalization. This requires survey researchers to move from one-size-fits-all solutions to a data collection strategy that takes into account people's communication habits, abilities and preferences. For several decades, computer...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Individuals are embedded in social contexts: although many large-scale, cross-thematic social science surveys already attempt to do justice to this fact, so far research has only been partially successful.
The aim of this study is to supplement and improve the existing data collection strategies - survey designs for multiple actors (MA) and questionnaire modules for egocentric networks (ECN) -...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study