Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Being close to ethnic peers: the formation of ethnic residential clustering from a household perspective

To assess the impact of segregation a better understanding is required why minorities and natives decide to move closer to ethnic peers. This study investigates the drivers for ethnic residential clustering from a household perspective. For this, household panel data for Germany is linked to small-scale information on the share of co-ethnic neighbours and to the number of regional housing offers and ...

The Discussion of Redistributional Effects of German Health Care Reforms - Much Ado about Nothing?

Happiness and Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis for Germany

Unemployment: Where does it Hurt?

Why Are the Unemployed So Unhappy? Evidence from Panel Data

This paper tests for the importance of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment using a longitudinal data-set on life-satisfaction of working-age men in Germany. We show that unemployment has a large detrimental effect on satisfaction after individual specific fixed effects are controlled for. The non-pecuniary effect is much larger than the effect that stems from the associated loss of income.

Personality, work, and satisfaction: evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Vocational Training and the Transition to the Labor Market: the German Case

Apprenticeship and After: Does it Really Matter?

The Impact of Weighting Systems on Panel Surveys (ECHP and SOEP)

Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal Social Science Surveys

Social scientists usually assume that the attitudes, behaviors, and statuses of respondents to longitudinal surveys are not altered by the act of measuring them. If this assumption is false—or even if the quality of survey participants’ responses change because of measurement—then social scientists risk mischaracterizing the existence, magnitude, and correlates of changes across survey waves in respondents’ ...