Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Working and employment conditions in Germany

Further professional education and training in Germany

Measuring job satisfaction in surveys: Germany - Comparative analytical report

Measuring Happiness: The Economics of Well-Being

The Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE): Project Report

In 2012/13, a survey of German employers was conducted using face-to-face and paper-and-pencil interviews (N = 1,708; response rate = 30.1%). Establishments were sampled based on address information provided by employed participants in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. The information obtained from both surveys can be linked in order to create a linked employer–employee data set concerning organizational ...

The Linked Employer–Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE): Content, Design and Research Potential

The Space of Economic and Cultural Capital: A Latent Class Analysis for Germany

The aim of this paper is to construct the “space of capital” based on disaggregated measures of capital portfolios and to analyze the dynamics of class mobility over time. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the “social space”, we argue that it is possible to directly assess the structural dimensions of the social space as a space of (economic and cultural) capital, including wealth as an important ...

The effects of time frames on self-report

Background The degree to which episodic and semantic memory processes contribute to retrospective self-reports have been shown to depend on the length of reporting period. Robinson and Clore (2002) argued that when the amount of accessible detail decreases due to longer reporting periods, an episodic retrieval strategy is abandoned in favor of a semantic retrieval strategy. The current study further ...

Empirical Essays on the Long-Term Consequences of Early Infant Conditions for Health, Productivity, and Family Formation

Plenty of evidence shows that living conditions during pregnancy and infancy shape long-term well-being, partly for multiple generations. External changes in the living conditions for children can be found in a unique setting in modern history: the negative consequences of National-Socialism and the Second World War in German territory. I compile a data set which joins individual information on health, ...

Living Conditions and the Mental Health and Well-being of Refugees: Evidence from a Representative German Panel Study

The mental health and well-being of refugees are both prerequisites for and indicators of social integration. Using data from the first wave of a representative prospective panel of refugees living in Germany, we investigated how different living conditions, especially those subject to integration policies, are associated with experienced distress and life satisfaction in newly-arrived adult refugees. ...