Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Changes in Employed People’s Health Satisfaction

The article examines for Germany whether the subjective satisfaction with health has changed over the course of time. It is analysed whether a drop in health satisfaction can be observed and whether this can be explained by changing employment circumstances. Labour market research has documented a change in the employment situation in detail, which can be subsumed under the keyword of precarisation. ...

From Gross to Net Wages in German Administrative Data Sets

This data documentation describes selected ways of how to analyze net wages in the weakly anonymous Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies 1975-2010 (SIAB) or other administrative data sets provided by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Among other things, these data sets provide information about dependently employed persons in Germany and their gross wages over time. Due to the ...

Comprehensive evaluation of the Pro Kind home visiting program: A summary of results

This paper provides an overview of the German home visiting program Pro Kind. We conducted a RCT to assess the program effects. A total of 755 women with multiple risk factors were recruited; of those, 394 were assigned to the treatment group. We assessed program influences on family environment, maternal and child health, and child development until the child’s third birthday in regular interviews, ...

Social Inequality & Social Justice: European Welfare States, Conceptions of Social Justice and their Distributive Conequences

Social Inequality, Social Justice and the Life Dimensions Approach

Parent-Child Transfers in Germany - Evidence from Panel Data

Parent-Child-Transfers in Germany: A Study of Magnitude and Motivations

Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Analyse privater Transfers in Deutschland mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP). Für das Jahr 1995 wird die Summe lebzeitiger Eltern-Kind-Transfers auf etwa 17 Milliarden DM geschätzt. Die ökonometrische Analyse basiert auf zwei Unterstichproben aus dem SOEP: einem Eltern-Datensatz, der Informationen über eine große Zahl von Elternhaushalten enthält, und einem ...

Do Germans Save to Leave an Estate? An Examination of the Bequest Motive

The Distribution of the German Public-Private Wage Gap

Age, Cohort, and the Slump of Job Satisfaction among West German Workers

Using German panel data, I examine the long-term development in satisfaction with work from 1984 until 2001. As was the case for many other industrialized countries, Germany witnessed a sharp decline in workers’ self-reported job satisfaction in the late 1980s and 1990s, the reason of which is yet unknown. I present a cohort analysis of job satisfaction using various identifying assumptions to examine ...