Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Income Taxation and its Family Components in France and Germany: A Comparison of Distributional Effects

A New Approach for Assessing Sleep Duration and Postures from Ambulatory Accelerometry

Interest in the effects of sleeping behavior on health and performance is continuously increasing–both in research and with the general public. Ecologically valid investigations of this research topic necessitate the measurement of sleep within people’s natural living contexts. We present evidence that a new approach for ambulatory accelerometry data offers a convenient, reliable, and valid measurement ...

Intrafamilial Upstream Transfers and Household Production

Adaptation to Income Over Time: A Weak Point of Subjective Well-Being

This article holds the view that intertemporal comparisons of subjective well-being measures are only meaningful when the underlying standards of judgment are unaltered. This is a weak point of such measures. The study investigates the change in the satisfaction judgments resulting from adaptation to income over time. Adaptation is defined to be desensitization (sensitization) to the hedonic effect ...

Does subjective well-being dynamically adjust to circumstances?

This paper introduces a simple model to estimate the dynamic adjustment of subjective well-being that results from an updating of expectations in response to changing circumstances. Empirical evidence indicates that adjustment takes place within a relatively short window of time.

The dynamics of welfare entry and exit among natives and immigrants

This paper studies welfare entry and exit in Germany and determines the relevance of state dependence. We separately consider natives and immigrants after a substantial reform of the German welfare system. Based on dynamic multinomial logit estimations, we calculate transition matrices between three mutually exclusive labor market states. We find that temporal persistence in welfare participation can ...

Zufriedenheit mit der Altersvorsorge und Präferenzen für alternative Sicherungsmodelle: empirische Analysen mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study 2002, we show that satisfaction with the German public pension system is significantly lower in the younger generation. This effect is independent from the individual economic situation and cannot be observed in earlier years. Whereas long periods of full time employment increase satisfaction with old-age security, unemployment has a significant ...

Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), it is shown that income comparisons with persons who are better off has a clear impact on the job satisfaction of West German full-time employees. Two contrary effects can be identified. On the one hand, there is an aversion to disadvantageous regional income inequality, while, on the other hand, individuals prefer inequality within their ...

What (if anything) do satisfaction scores tell us about the intertemporal change in living conditions?

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends on the extent to which people adapt to living conditions in general. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model provides evidence that adaptation takes place within a relatively short window of time: changes in living conditions ...

Do Hours Restrictions Matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogeneous wages and hours restrictions