Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Using the Dirichlet Process to Form Clusters of People’s Concerns in the Context of Future Party Identification

Connections between interindividual differences and people’s behavior has been widely researched in various contexts, often by using top-down group comparisons to explain interindividual differences. In contrast, in this study, we apply a bottom-up approach in which we identify meaningful clusters in people’s concerns about various areas of life (e.g., their own health, their financial situation, the ...

Health Inequalities at Different Stages of the Lifecycle (Dissertation)

This thesis comprises three independent but closely related empirical studies dealing with different aspects of health inequalities at different stages of the life cycle. First, the thesis focuses on children aged 9-12 and explores whether maternal employment is related to the probability of being overweight among these children. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the results indicate that children ...

Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe

Fertitlity and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modelling Assumptions

Die Bereitschaft zur Weiterbeschäftigung im Ruhestandsalter im Zusammenhang mit sozioökonomischen Merkmalen

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob und inwiefern Informationen über den sozioökonomischen Status – gemessen an der beruflichen Stellung und dem verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen – zuverlässige Aussagen über die Bereitschaft, im Ruhestandsalter weiter zu arbeiten, treffen können. Kontrolliert werden diese Betrachtungen mit weiteren beruflichen und individuellen Merkmalen. Datengrundlage ist ...

The Impact of Socioeconomic Characteristics on Older Employees’ Willingness to Continue Working in Retirement Age

This article explores whether and to what degree information on the socioeconomic status – measured by professional status and disposable household income – allows making reliable statements on the willingness to remain in work in retirement age. These observations are controlled for professional and individual characteristics. The data basis is constituted by the study entitled “Continuing in employment ...

A matter of perception: Exploring the role of income satisfaction in the income-mortality relationship in German survey data 1995-2010

Individual- and community-level income has been shown to be linked to social inequalities in health and mortality. On the individual level, social comparisons and relative deprivation resulting from them have been identified as relevant mechanisms involved in the relationship between income and health, but it is mainly income-based measures of relative deprivation that have been considered in previous ...

Income and health in different welfare contexts: A comparison of Sweden, East and West Germany

Background: The aim of the present study is to explore whether the association between income and self-rated health in Sweden is similar to that in Germany. Both countries represent relatively similar economic contexts, but also different welfare traditions and historic experiences. Thus, the study compares Sweden with East Germany and West Germany in order to incorporate the aftereffects of reunification ...

Separation, divorce, and housing tenure: A cross-country comparison

<b>Background</b>: Housing tenure after divorce is an important factor in individuals’ well-being. Although previous studies have examined tenure changes following divorce, only a few studies have compared patterns across countries. <b>Objective</b>: We study the destination tenure type of separated individuals (homeownership, social renting, private renting, other) in Australia, ...

First child of immigrant workers and their descendants in West Germany: Interrelation of events, disruption, or adaptation?

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the transition to motherhood among women from Turkey, Italy, Spain, Greece, and the former Yugoslavia in West Germany. A hazard-regression analysis is applied to data of the German Socio-Economic Panel study. We distinguish between the first and second immigrant generation. The results show that the transition rates to a first birth of first-generation ...