Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Early Career Patterns: A Comparison of Great Britain and West Germany

Stepping-stones or Traps? The Consequences of Labour Market Entry Position for the Further Career Chances in Germany, Italy and Great Britain

Patterns of Labour Market Entry - Long Wait or Career Instability? An Empirical Comparison of Italy, Great Britain and West Germany

Current discussion in Europe focuses closely on (partial) labour market de-regulation as a means to combat constantly high (youth) unemployment. The paper argues that this perspective is too narrow and fails to account for existing national institutional differences. It suggests that the focus should instead be on a combination of different institutional settings, rather than on single aspects. This ...

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. ...

Determinants of Fertility - An Application of Machine Learning Techniques

Employment Opportunities and Labour Market Exclusion: Towards a New Pattern of Gender Stratification?

Do overtime hours represent sustainable work? An investigation of the relation between overtime and health

Job Insecurity and Mental Health from a Spillover-Crossover Perspective– Multilevel Modeling of Longitudinal Dyadic Data

Accuracy of Food Preference Predictions in Couples

The goal of this study was to identify and empirically test variables that indicate how well partners in relationships know each other’s food preferences. Participants (n = 2,854) lived in the same household and were part of a large, nationally representative panel study in Germany. Each partner independently predicted the other’s preferences for several common food items. Results show that predictive ...

Implementation of Funding for the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)— A personal recollection

The SOEP success story was not conceivable at its inception. SOEP’s institutionalization is therefore a lesson demonstrating that it is not always possible to say—as is so often required of research proposals today—how a project will develop before it has even begun, and what significance it may one day have. Or, even worse, to show “how a research project will pay off.”