Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Child Well-Being in the EU and Enlargement to the East

The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe

Recent studies emphasize the impact of macroeconomic factors on educational attainment. They show that although individual factors like the educational level of one’s parents play a decisive role in determining the human capital accumulation of the children, the cohort size as well as the local labor market seem to have a significant impact, too. This paper analyzes the impact of birth cohort size ...

Returns to Education in Europe. Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey

A matter of perception: Exploring the role of income satisfaction in the income-mortality relationship in German survey data 1995-2010

Individual- and community-level income has been shown to be linked to social inequalities in health and mortality. On the individual level, social comparisons and relative deprivation resulting from them have been identified as relevant mechanisms involved in the relationship between income and health, but it is mainly income-based measures of relative deprivation that have been considered in previous ...

Income and health in different welfare contexts: A comparison of Sweden, East and West Germany

Background: The aim of the present study is to explore whether the association between income and self-rated health in Sweden is similar to that in Germany. Both countries represent relatively similar economic contexts, but also different welfare traditions and historic experiences. Thus, the study compares Sweden with East Germany and West Germany in order to incorporate the aftereffects of reunification ...

Separation, divorce, and housing tenure: A cross-country comparison

<b>Background</b>: Housing tenure after divorce is an important factor in individuals’ well-being. Although previous studies have examined tenure changes following divorce, only a few studies have compared patterns across countries. <b>Objective</b>: We study the destination tenure type of separated individuals (homeownership, social renting, private renting, other) in Australia, ...

First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany: Interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the transition to motherhood among women from Turkey, Italy, Spain, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia in West Germany. A hazard-regression analysis is applied to data of the German Socio-Economic Panel study. We distinguish between the first and second immigrant generation. The results show that the transition rates to a first birth of first-generation ...

Fertility of Immigrants. A Two-Generational Approach in Germany (Demographic Research Monographs) (Dissertation)

Immigrant Fertility in West Germany: Is There a Socialization Effect in Transitions to Second and Third Births?

In this paper on immigrant fertility in West Germany, we estimate the transition rates to second and third births, using intensity-regression models. The data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. We distinguish women of the first and the second immigrant generations originating from Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, and Spain, and compare their fertility levels to those of West ...

Mixed Marriages in Germany: A High Risk of Divorce for Immigrant-Native Couples

This study investigates the effect of native/immigrant intermarriage on divorce. We used a rich longitudinal dataset from the German Socio-Economic Panel and applied event-history techniques to examine the risk of divorce among immigrants in Germany. Our analysis of the divorce rates of 5,648 marriages shows that immigrant couples have a lower risk of divorce than do natives. However, marriages between ...