Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

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  • Temps Dip Deeper: Temporary Employment and the Midlife Nadir in Human Well-Being

    Temporary employees rank lower than permanent employees on various measures of mental and physical health, including well-being. In parallel, much research has shown that the relationship between age and well-being traces an approximate U-shape, with a nadir in midlife. Temporary employment may well have different associations with well-being across the lifespan, likely harming people in midlife more ...

    In: Journal of the Economics of Ageing 19 (2021), June 2021, 100323 | Alan Piper
  • Trajectories of Multiple Subjective Well-Being Facets Across Old Age: The Role of Health and Personality

    Subjective well-being is often characterized by average stability across old age, but individual differences are substantial and not yet fully understood. This study targets physical and cognitive health and personality as individual difference characteristics and examines their unique and interactive roles forlevel and change in a number of different facets of subjective well-being. We make use of ...

    In: Psychology and Aging 35 (2020), 6, 894-909 | Sophie Potter, Johanna Drewelies, Jenny Wagner, Sandra Düzel, Annette Brose, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
  • Refugees’ High Employment Expectations: Partially Met

    This report compares employment expectations among refugees in Germany in 2016 with their actual employment situation in 2018, using the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany. In 2016, the majority of refugees reported that the probability they would find employment within two years was high. Employment expectations were met by 54 percent of all refugees; yet 35 percent of refugees who articulated ...

    In: DIW Weekly Report 34/2020 (2020), 337-343 | Daniel Graeber, Felicitas Schikora
  • Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples

    This study assessed change in self‐reported Big Five personality traits. We conducted a coordinated integrative data analysis using data from 16 longitudinal samples, comprising a total sample of over 60 000 participants. We coordinated models across multiple datasets and fit identical multi‐level growth models to assess and compare the extent of trait change over time. Quadratic change was assessed ...

    In: European Journal of Personality 34 (2020), 3, 301-321 | Eileen K. Graham, Sara J. Weston, Denis Gerstorf, Tomiko B. Yoneda, Tom Booth, et al.
  • The value of health—Empirical issues when estimating the monetary value of a quality-adjusted life year based on well-being data

    Decisions on interventions or policy alternatives affecting health can be informed by economic evaluations, like cost-benefit or cost-utility analyses. In this context, there is a need for valid estimates of the monetary equivalent value of health (gains), which are often expressed in € per quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). Obtaining such estimates remains methodologically challenging, with a recent ...

    In: Health Economics 30 (2021), 8, 1849-1870 | Sebastian Himmler, Jannis Stöckel, Job van Exel, Werner B. F. Brouwer
  • Labour Market Participation of Refugees in Germany : Legal Context and Individual-level Factors

    Labour market access is a crucial aspect of integration. Among other things, it providesmigrants with economic resources to participate in societal life in the hostcountry. This chapter explores the factors of labour market access for refugees inGermany. First, we provide a brief overview of how labour market access is determinedby legal status. Second, we explore individual aspects of labour market ...

    In: Annette Korntheuer, Paul Pritchard, Débora B. Maehler, Lori Wilkinson , Refugees in Canada and Germany: From Research to Policies and Practice (Gesis-Schriftenreihe, 25)
    Mannheim: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
    189-201
    | Jannes Jacobsen, Magdalena Krieger, Nicolas Legewie
  • To work or to study? Postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment

    In diesem Artikel analysieren wir individuelle Faktoren und situative Bedingungen, unter denen Einwanderer mehr oder weniger wahrscheinlich in aufnahmeland-spezifisches Humankapital investieren. Theoretisch stützen wir unsere Analysen auf einen Ansatz des Humankapital-Investitionsmodells von Zuwanderern und verbinden diesen mit einem Basismodell für rationale Bildungsentscheidungen. Mit Hilfe eines ...

    In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 73 (2021), June 2021, 100610 | Andreas Damelang, Yuliya Kosyakova
  • Are the Losers of Communism the Winners of Capitalism? The Effects of Conformism in the GDR on Transition Success

    Following the fall of the Iron Curtain it was important for the acceptance of the new economic and political system that the former Communist elites did not maintain their privileges, and that protesters, who helped to overturn the old system, improved their situation. With newly available panel data on East Germany’s socialist past, the German Democratic Republic, we analyze how former Communist elites, ...

    Berlin: DIW Berlin, 2020,
    (SOEPpapers 1102)
    | Max Deter
  • Hartz and Minds: Happiness Effects of Reforming an Employment Agency

    Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment rates. However, little is known about the reforms’ effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study applies difference-in-difference estimations and finds a decrease in life satisfaction after the reforms that is more pronounced for male unemployed in west Germany. ...

    In: Journal of Happiness Studies 22 (2021), 4, 1819-1838 | Max Deter
  • Food, classed? Social inequality and diet: Understanding stratified meat consumption patterns in Germany

    Based on a complementary mixed-methods design, the dissertation sheds light on the relationship between meat consumption practices and consumers’ socioeconomic position. In a first step, two large-scale data sets, the German Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS) 2013 and the Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) 2016, are used to establish empirical relationships between meat consumption practices and consumers’ ...

    2020, | Laura Einhorn
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