Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Foreigners and the Social Insurance System in Germany

Trends in active life expectancy in Germany between 1984 and 2003 - a cohort analysis with different health indicators

Can We Really (All) Work Longer? Trends in Healthy Life Expectancy According to Social Stratum in Germany

Against the background of raising the retirement age to 67 years and the associated lengthening of working lifetimes in higher age groups, this article examines the question of the extent to which this political objective is covered by the health assets of the population. Here, we will first trace trends in “healthy” life expectancy among the total population for different points in time 1989, 1999 ...

Poverty Statistics: Issues in Poverty Measurement. Planning and Design of Household Panel Surveys for Enhancing Poverty Statistics

The Impact of Young Children on Women’s Labour Supply: A Reassessment of Institutional Effects in Europe

The proportion of women who withdraw from paid employment when they have children differs considerably among the countries of the European Union (EU), and the variation has mostly been attributed to institutional factors. In this study, we reassess the institutional explanation, because earlier supportive evidence is threatened by two alternative macro-level explanations: the influence of the economic ...

Unemployment Duration and Noncognitive Skills

This paper focuses on the role of noncognitive skills on the success of unemployed workers finding a job. We argue that a worker's job search intensity not only relies on the conventional determinants discussed in the job search literature but is decisively driven by her noncognitive skills which rejected in her propensity to motivate and control herself while searching for a job. Moreover, personality ...

Unemployment duration and personality

This paper focuses on the role personality traits play in determining individual unemployment duration. We argue that a worker’s job search intensity is decisively driven by her personality traits, reflected in her propensity to motivate and control herself while searching for a job. Moreover, personality traits, in as far as they can be signaled to a potential employer, may also enhance the probability ...

Social Structure and the Paradox of the Contented Female Worker: How Occupational Gender Segregation Biases Justice Perceptions of Wages

This article provides a structural explanation for the paradox of the contented female worker. Although they are generally aware that they earn less than men, women usually perceive their wages as more just. This article argues that men and women do not differ in how they perceive their wages, yet the gendered segregation of the labor market will constrain the availability of preferred same-gender ...

The Ins and Outs of Poverty in Advanced Economies: Government Policy and Poverty Dynamics in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States

Growth, mobility and social progress

We evaluate social progress on the basis of panel data on individual incomes by comparing the value of social welfare in the observed panel data to its value in a situation where individuals receive their first period income in each period. We derive necessary conditions for the welfare gain to be positive, and show how it can be decomposed in an effect of economic growth, a mobility effect and a cost ...