Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Valuing the Benefits of Reunification for East Germans: An Investigation of Changes in Life Satisfaction

Investigating the Patterns and Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Germany Following Reunification

Money Does Matter! Evidence from Increasing Real Income and Life Satisfaction in East Germany Following Reunification

The causal effect of income on health: Evidence from German reunification

Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

How well do individuals predict their future life satisfaction? Evidence from panel data following a nationwide exogenous shock

The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model: An Application to Socioeconomic Status, Health Shocks, and Mortality

We introduce a duration model that allows for unobserved cumulative individual-specific shocks, which are likely to be important in explaining variations in duration outcomes, such as length of life and time spent unemployed. The model is also a useful tool in situations where researchers observe a great deal of information about individuals when first interviewed in surveys but little thereafter. ...

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How much of a socialist legacy? The re-emergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy

We investigate how institutional change—the transition from a socialist system to a western type market economy—relates to the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany. This region is particularly well suited for such a study because of the rapid change of the institutional framework and the possibility to use West Germany as a benchmark. It took about 15 years until self-employment levels ...

Entrepreneurship and Cultural Creativity

We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and personal creativity as a characteristic of self-employed individuals; second, selfemployment in professions that can be classified as belonging to the ‘Creative Class’ as compared to the non-creative class. The analysis is based on micro-data for individuals of the German Socio Economic ...