Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Editorial – SOEP 2012: The 10th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference

Professional Qualifications and LongHours the Key to High Income

Unemployment and Smoking: Causation, Selection, or Common Cause? Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio-economic position (common cause). Methods: ...

Unfair Pay and Health: The Effects of Perceived Injustice of Earnings on Physical Health

While there is ample evidence that income inequalities influence individuals’ health status, the mechanisms behind this income inequality–health correlation are only partially understood. This study shows that inequalities evaluated on the basis of individual perceptions of injustice are a driving force behind this connection. Two main questions are addressed: Does perceiving one’s earnings as unfair ...

Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence from Germany

What Determines Household Saving Behavior? An Examination of Saving Motives and Saving Decisions

Saving decisions are complex, since there are many concurrent motives for saving a portion of one's income. However, while the existing literature covers all of these motives, most contributions select only one of them as a focus and relegate the others to the background by making simplifying assumptions about them. While the focus on only one saving motive is vital for many insights on aggregate ...

Is There a Growing Risk of Old-Age Poverty in East Germany? (Comment)

Forty Years of Social Reporting and Life Quality Research in Germany - Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Forty Years of Social Reporting and Quality of Life Research in Germany. A Look Back and Prospects for the Future

Marginal Employment: No Jobs Miracle - Towards a permanent decline of secondary employment?