Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Job Displacement and the Transition to Re-Employment and Early Retirement for Non-Employed Older Workers across Institutional Environments

Despite the relatively higher frequency of job displacement among older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for a number of countries with differences in their institutional environments, the effect of job displacement for non-employed workers is identified separately for the transitions ...

Stability of Risk Attitudes and Media Coverage of Economic News

This paper investigates the impact of exogenous changes in individuals' perceived economic environment on their self-stated risk attitudes by exploiting changes in media coverage of economic news. We use information on risk attitudes from the German Socioeconomic Panel and combine it with data on the average daily frequency of economic news reports during the year and the month preceding the date ...

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Feeling European: an exploration of ethnic disparities among immigrants

Over the last 20 years, European identity has become a key topic widely investigated in social sciences. However, most research has only focused on EU nationals and EU immigrants, neglecting the fact that a substantial segment of citizens in Europe are non-EU immigrants. This article explores the differences between and within EU and non-EU immigrant groups in terms of European identity and potential ...

The effect of reciprocal motives, personality traits and wage differences on public employees’ job satisfaction

This study explores the determinants of public employees’ job satisfaction. We are focusing on three concepts – reciprocal motives, personality traits and wage differences – to explain job satisfaction and production sector affiliation. Estimation results obtained from multivariate analyses on individual level data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) can be summarized in three points: ...

Should I stay or should I go? The effect of gender, education and unemployment on labour market transitions

This paper re-examines the turnover behaviour of men and women using panel data from six European countries. It makes a distinction between job-to-job (JJ) and job-to-non-employment (JNE) transitions, and explores the role that education and unemployment play in gender differences regarding these mobility patterns. Low educated women have lower JJ transition probabilities but are more likely to exit ...

Competing with the dragon: Employment and wage effects of Chinese trade competition in 17 sectors across 18 OECD countries

The rapid rise of China on the global economic stage could have substantial and unequal employment and wage effects in advanced industrialised democracies given China’s large volume of low-wage labour. Thus far, these effects have not been analysed in the comparative political economy literature. Building on new pooled time-series data, we analyse the effects of Chinese trade competition across 17 ...

Sectoral trends in earnings inequality and employment International trade, skill-biased technological change, or labour market institutions?

Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than between sectors. Yet, there is significant variation in the level of inequality across sectors whilst the ...

Mutual Influences of Health and Poverty. Evidence from German Panel Data

Noncognitive Skills in Economics: Models, Measurement and Empirical Evidence

There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different disciplines, the common psychometric measures used to assess personality are discussed. A recently proposed theoretical ...