Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Local Likelihood estimation and bias reduction in varying-coefficient models

Duration of unemployment in Germany and the UK: A case study of nonparametric hazard models and penalized spines (mimeo)

The paper investigates unemployment behaviour in Germany and the UK between 1995 and 2005 based on data from national panel studies. The study focuses on the investigation of covariate effects like gender, age and education on the duration of unemployment. Dynamic duration time models are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration. The intention of the paper ...

Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Do Tax Deductions Affect Labor Supply Choices? - Longitudinal Evidence for Lone Parents in Germany

Take It or Leave It: (Non-)Take-Up Behavior of Social Assistance in Germany

Triggers and determinants of severe household indebtedness in Germany

The phenomenon of overindebted private households has created economic and political concern, also in Germany. Using measures of relative (over-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence level, this paper investigates the question whether severe household indebtedness is mainly driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, ...

Who feels constrained by high debt burdens? Subjective vs. objective measures of household debt

This paper analyzes differences in self-assessed debt burdens of German households confronted with an objective debt burden. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, my econometric analysis shows that a household's subjective debt burden is not only influenced by the current constellation of income, debt service and, possibly, the potential subsistence level, but also by expectations of ...

Broke, Ill, and Obese: Is There an Effect of Household Debt on Health?

We analyze the association between household indebtedness and different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999 to 2009. We control for unobserved heterogeneity by applying fixed-effects methods and furthermore use a subsample of constantly employed individuals plus lagged debt variables to reduce problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of household ...

Combining employment and care-giving: how differing care intensities influence employment patterns among middle-aged women in Germany

Given an ageing population and increased participation by women in the labour force, the relationship between unpaid care and the availability of women to the labour force is gaining in importance as an issue. This article assesses the impact of unpaid care on transitions into employment by women aged between 45 and 59 years. It uses the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from the years 2001–2014 to ...

Is Part-Time Employment after Childbirth a Stepping-Stone into Full-Time Work? A Cohort Study for East and West Germany

Does part-time work support first-time mothers? employment by providing a stepping-stone into full-time work in Germany? Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984?2012, this study compares three different age cohorts of first-time East and West German mothers to investigate whether there has been any convergence between East and West Germany in the way women use part-time employment. ...