Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Deteriorating health satisfaction among immigrants from Eastern Europe in Germany

Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities

This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings in the Swedish labor market. In the field experiment job applicants were randomly given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport skills have a significantly higher callback ...

Comparative Overview of Household Definitions Used in Major Household Panel Surveys

Incidence and intensity of smoothed income poverty in European countries

The purpose of this paper is to obtain, by combining two longitudinal perspectives, a more detailed national picture of poverty in the member states of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994–7) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration is given to the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and poverty intensity. Overall, the ranking ...

The data quality concept of accuracy in the context of publicly shared data sets

Along with other data quality dimensions, the concept of accuracy is often used to describe the quality of a particular data set. However, its basic definition refers to the statistical properties of estimators, which can hardly be proved by means of just a single survey. This ambiguity can be resolved by assigning “accuracy” to survey processes that are known to affect these properties. In this contribution, ...

Continuing Vocational Training in Germany - A Comparative Study Using 3 German Data Sets

Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions: Evidence from Britain and Germany

Daylight savings time represents a public good with costs and benefits. We provide the first comprehensive examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a regression discontinuity design, we estimate the effect of the transitions on life satisfaction. Our results show that individuals in both the UK and Germany experience ...

The effects of smoking bans on self-assessed health: evidence from Germany

We examine the effects of smoking bans on self-assessed health in Germany taking into account heterogeneities by smoking status, gender and age. We exploit regional variation in the dates of enactment and dates of enforcement across German federal states. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, our difference-in-differences estimates show that non-smokers' health improves, whereas smokers ...

Childbirth and the Long-Term Division of Labour within Couples: How do Substitution, Bargaining Power, and Norms affect Parents’ Time Allocation in West Germany?

Parents display a highly gendered division of labour: fathers specialize in paid work and mothers take over most domestic work. However, the processes underlying the long-term effect of parenthood on a couple’s time allocation remain obscure, because previous research merely looks at the average effect of having children, neglecting possible interactions with the partners’ absolute and relative resources. ...

Domestic Work and the Wage Penalty for Motherhood in West Germany

Previous research suggests that household tasks prohibit women from unfolding their full earning potential by depleting their work effort and limiting their time flexibility. The present study investigated whether this relationship can explain the wage gap between mothers and nonmothers in West Germany. The empirical analysis applied fixed-effects models and used self-reported information on time use ...