Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Integration of "Old" and "New" Immigrant Groups in Germany

Occupational and Economic Mobility and Social Integration of Mediterranean Migrants in Germany

Social and Economic Integration of Foreigners in Germany

Essays in Behavioural Economics

The goal of behavioural economics is to improve classic microeconomic theory by introducing motives and concepts from related fields like psychology and sociology. The driving paradigm of most neo-classical economic research is the concept of the Homo Oeconomicus, a human who approaches all problems in a rational and typically selfish way and who possesses boundless computational power and flawless ...

Life Satisfaction in Adult Survivors of Cancer During Adolescence: What Contributes to the Latter Satisfaction of Life?

Purpose To compare the general and health-related life satisfaction (LS) in long-term survivors of adolescent cancer with a community sample and to identify medical and psychosocial factors associated with LS. Methods LS of 820 survivors (ageM = 30.4 ± 6.0 years; time since diagnosis M = 13.7 ± 6.0 years) was assessed with the Questions on Life Satisfaction (FLZM) and compared to an age- and sex-matched ...

A distribution-sensitive examination of the gender wage gap in Germany

This paper provides a new examination of the gender pay gap for Germany based on a family of distribution-sensitive indicators. Wage distributions for men and women do not only differ by a fixed constant; differences are more complex. We show that focusing on the bottom of the wage distribution reveals a larger gender gap. Our distribution-sensitive analysis can also be used to study whether the statistical ...

The Interaction between Item, Questionnaire and Unit Nonresponse in the German SOEP

Problems of Dissemination and Examples of "Public Use Micro-Data" in Germany

Healthy donor effect and satisfaction with health

The objective of this paper is to quantify selection effects related to blood donation behavior and their impact on donors’ perceived health status. We rely on data from the 2009 and 2010 survey waves of the German socio-economic panel (N = 12,000), including information on health-related, demographic and psychographic factors as well as monetary donation behavior and volunteer work. We propose a propensity ...

Profiling Donors of Blood, Money, and Time: A Simultaneous Comparison of the German Population

Understanding donor profiles is crucial for donor relationship management. Whereas previous research has focused on profiling blood, money, or time donor segments separately, we define seven donor profiles based on their former donation behavior for blood, money, and time donation and compare them to non-donors. Relying on representative data from the German Socio Economic Panel, we use an extensive ...