Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Employment Behaviour Among Women in Germany: Differences Between East and West Persists

Promotion of Part-Time Work through Legal Entitlement - Help or Hindrance for Employment Growth?

Rise in Occupational Mobility Especially Amongst Women and Young People

Labour Market Attachment of People outside the Labour Force - An Explorative Analysis of Hidden Labor Force in Europe

Is Part-time Work a Way to Create Jobs? Working time preferences in west and east Germany

Working Time Preferences in West and East Germany in 1997 - Potential for working time reduction has declined

Social Causation Versus Health Selection in the Life Course: Does Their Relative Importance Differ by Dimension of SES?

A person’s socioeconomic status (SES) can affect health (social causation) and health can affect SES (health selection). The findings for each of these pathways may depend on how SES is measured. We study (1) whether social causation or health selection is more important for overall health inequalities, (2) whether this differs between stages of the life course, and (3) between measures of SES. Using ...

Inequality of Personal Income in the Enlarged EU: The Role of the Welfare States, Regional Cohesion Policies and Economic Integration

The spatial structure of income inequality in the enlarged EU

Data Bases and Statistical Systems: Sociology

As a rule, core databases contain quantitative survey data. Traditionally, qualitative data, for example, ethnographic field notes or transcripts of group discussions and interviews, have not been made available for secondary analysis. This is slowly changing, and a number of data archives in Europe, Australia, and the US are working on the archiving of qualitative data. Quantitative social science ...