Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being In and Out of Management Positions

This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in nonleadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results indicated that a clear hierarchy ...

A Comparison of Poverty Rate Estimates Using Expenditure and Income Data

Tackling and Understanding the Small Sample Bias in ARFIMA Models

What are the Effects of Naturalization on the Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants? The cases of France and Germany

Explaining Attitudes towards Immigration: New Pieces to the Puzzle

German attitudes to immigration linked to economic self-interest

Analyzing Second-Generation Trajectories from a Life Course Approach: What Mixed Methods Can Offer (Chapter 5)

The transition to adulthood is a phase marked by major life events and eventual turning points. This contribution addresses the methodological aspects related to the application of the life course approach for the study of the life trajectories of the children of immigrants in a cross-national comparative perspective. Since life trajectories are embedded in and determined by structural and institutional ...

Success Despite Starting Out at a Disadvantage: What Helps Second-Generation Migrants in France and Germany?

The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young adults with a migration background are in no way a negligible exception. However, the picture is different in the two countries: while in France more migrants’ descendants manage to reach their (secondary?) ...

Above-Average Rise in Immigrant Poverty: Poverty Often Concomitant with Other Types of Deprivation

Multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics using MTAG

We introduce multi-trait analysis of GWAS (MTAG), a method for joint analysis of summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of different traits, possibly from overlapping samples. We apply MTAG to summary statistics for depressive symptoms (Neff = 354,862), neuroticism (N = 168,105), and subjective well-being (N = 388,538). As compared to the 32, 9, and 13 genome-wide significant ...