Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Forty Years of Social Reporting and Life Quality Research in Germany - Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Forty Years of Social Reporting and Quality of Life Research in Germany. A Look Back and Prospects for the Future

Unfair Pay and Health: The Effects of Perceived Injustice of Earnings on Physical Health

While there is ample evidence that income inequalities influence individuals’ health status, the mechanisms behind this income inequality–health correlation are only partially understood. This study shows that inequalities evaluated on the basis of individual perceptions of injustice are a driving force behind this connection. Two main questions are addressed: Does perceiving one’s earnings as unfair ...

Are Immigrants More Mobile Than Natives? Evidence from Germany

What Determines Household Saving Behavior? An Examination of Saving Motives and Saving Decisions

Saving decisions are complex, since there are many concurrent motives for saving a portion of one's income. However, while the existing literature covers all of these motives, most contributions select only one of them as a focus and relegate the others to the background by making simplifying assumptions about them. While the focus on only one saving motive is vital for many insights on aggregate ...

Is There a Growing Risk of Old-Age Poverty in East Germany? (Comment)

A RAND-User Guide for the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Local day care quality and maternal employment: Evidence from East and West Germany

By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment choices, this study extends the literature, which mostly has focused on the importance of day care availability or costs. The authors provide differentiated analyses by the youngest child's age and for West and East Germany to examine moderating influences, such as work-care cultures, ...

Childcare Trends in Germany: Increasing Socio-Economic Disparities in East and West

In East Germany, prior to reunification, day care provision was widely available to encourage mothers to return to work soon after giving birth. Conversely, in West Germany, child care facilities for the under-threes were few and far between and, at the end of the '80s/beginning of the '90s, the length of parental leave was gradually increased to up to three years following the birth of a ...

Expansion of Full-Day Childcare and Subjective Well-Being of Mothers: Interdependencies with Culture and Resources

This study investigates whether an expansion of state-subsidized full-day childcare may improve the subjective well-being of mothers of children under school age by acting as a boundary-spanning resource to facilitate the combination of employment and childcare responsibilities. It extends previous studies that showed contradictory results by demonstrating that the relationship with parental subjective ...