Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

EUROMOD: an integrated European Benefit-tax Model (Final Report)

Micro-level analysis of the European Social Agenda: combating poverty and social exclusion through changes in social and fiscal policy (final report)

Job search on the internet and its outcome

Purpose – This paper aims to estimate the impact of job search on the internet on the probability of re‐employment and the duration of unemployment spells.Design/methodology/approach – The study uses national panel datasets from Germany (SOEP 2003‐2007) and South Korea (KLIPS 1996‐2006) to estimate probit and Hausman‐Taylor IV models of the impact of job search on the internet on the probability of ...

The prevalence of medical services use. How comparable are the results of large-scale population surveys in Germany?

The large-scale representative population surveys conducted by Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI) contain questions pertaining to health and its determinants as well as the prevalence and frequency of outpatient services utilization. The same holds for the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP, Sozio-ökonomisches Panel) and the Bertelsmann Healthcare Monitor (Gesundheitsmonitor) surveys. The purpose of this ...

The Problem of Repeated Surveys. How Comparable are their Results Regarding the Utilization of Medical Services?

Large-scale representative population surveys in Germany contain questions pertaining to health and its determinants as well as the prevalence and intensity of outpatient services utilization. In this chapter, the comparability of the instruments used in these surveys and their results are examined. Questions on in- and outpatient care utilization as well as utilization of preventive services were ...

The impact of marriage and parenthood on male body mass index: Static and dynamic effects

Rationale: Numerous cross-sectional studies investigated the link between marital status and BMI in the context of competing social science theories (marriage market, marriage selection, marriage protection and social obligation), frequently offering conflicting theoretical predictions and conflicting empirical findings. Objective: This study analysed the effects of marriage, divorce, pregnancy, and ...

Determinants of self-employment among Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany

This empirical study investigates the determinants of self-employment propensity of Polish and Romanian immigrants in Germany. The German economy is an important object of analysis, as it is the most important destination for international migrants in the European Union. In the paper, we use the recently collected M sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine which personal, country of birth-specific ...

Incomes in a Planned and a Market Economy: The Case of the German Democratic Republic and the 'Former' Federal Republic of Germany

This paper examines the extents and determinants of earned income inequalities in the German Democratic Republic and the ‘former’ Federal Republic of Germany. In both systems income differences can be distinguished on the basis of individual and structural inequalities as well as according to organizational and economic structures. Nevertheless, different theoretical explanations must be used, in particular ...

Parent-Child Relations in East and West Germany shortly after the Fall of the Wall

This paper addresses the perceived closeness of the relation between East and West German adult children and their parents who no longer live in the same household. The empirical analyses are based on the German Socio‐Economic Panel (GSOEP). They show that East German family relations are closer than West German relations. Regarding the causes for closer or weaker relations for East and West Germans ...

Consequences of Allocation Processes in the Labor Market: A Comparison of the United States and Germany