Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Entrepreneurship, Windfall Gains and Financial Constraints: The Case of Germany

Small-Scale Business Survival and Inheritance: Evidence from Germany

This paper investigates whether small businesses face financial constraints that affect their survival. A model of moral hazard is developed in which financial constraints arise endogenously. The model predicts that higher private assets relax financial constraints and have a positive effect on the firm’s probability of survival. The empirical analysis confirms that the entrepreneur has a higher propensity ...

Temporary agency work in the SOEP: Coping with data quality problems

In principle, the SOEP is a highly adequate data source for analyzing the socio-economic background of temporary agency workers. In this paper, it’s argued that on second glance, the SOEP’s temp worker variable shows severe problems with data quality. An easy-to-use adjustment procedure is proposed that alleviates the problem, but is not an encompassing solution. Therefore, it is concluded that in ...

Multidimensional Polarization of Income and Wealth: The Extent and Intensity of Poverty and Affluence

Income and wealth are important determinants of individual economic well-being because they are a fundamental resource for consumption. Due to increasing inequality the distribution of income and wealth has moved more and more into the focus of scientific and political attention. The aim of this paper is to determine the extent and the intensity of multidimensional polarization of both income and wealth. ...

Social Change and the Timing of Family Transitions in West Germany: Evidence from cohort comparisons

This article addresses the timing of family transitions in early adulthood. Theoretical and empirical analyses are used to investigate the appropriateness of the notions of destandardization, differentiation and individualization for characterizing recent changes in West German life courses. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are used for a comparison of (West German) birth cohorts and ...

Between Privilege and Burden. Work Past Retirement Age in Germany and the UK

Does It Pay To Be a Woman? Labour Demand Effecst of Maternity-Related Job Protection and Replacement Incomes

In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand effects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical evidence, this paper studies the impact of changes in maternity-related job protection in Germany on employment ...

The Earnings Position of Young People on the German Labour Market

The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation

The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic and societal repercussions, questions concerning the subjective experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although existing studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for cognitive (life satisfaction) and affective well-being, studies directly ...