Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

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  • East-West Couples: Distribution, Characteristics and Stability

    SOEP data were used to examine relationships consisting of one partner socialised in West Germany and one in East Germany and who presently reside in the “old” (former West German) or “new” (newly for med East German) federal states. The estimated share of east-west couples among all marriages or cohabiting couples rises continuously within the observed period reaching approximately two and eleven ...

    In: Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft 40 (2015), 1, 3-30 | Daniel Lois
  • Two Worlds of Retirement Income: A comparative Analysis of Retirement-Income Outcomes Using the Luxembourg Income Study

    Syracuse: Syracuse University, Maxwell School, 2003,
    (Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 353)
    | Kevin Lomax, Brian Gran
  • Occupational Change in Britain and Germany

    We use British and German panel data to analyse job changes involving a change in occupation. We assess the extent of occupational change, taking into account the possibility of measurement error in occupational codes; whether job changes within the occupation differ from occupation changes in terms of the characteristics of those making such switches; and the effects of the two kinds of moves in terms ...

    In: Labour Economics 17 (2010), 4, 655-666 | Simonetta Longhi, Malcolm Brynin
  • Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison

    This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes | the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (forthcoming) | with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time (one year) and (b) their correlation with actual risk-taking behaviour in the lab - here the amount ...

    In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 119 (2015), Nov. 2015, 254-266 | Jan-Erik Lönnqvist, Markku Verkasalo, Gari Walkowitz, Philipp C. Wichardt
  • Identifying Laffer Bounds: A Sufficient-Statistics Approach with an Application to Germany

    We derive a simple sufficient-statistics test for whether a nonlinear tax-transfer system is second-best Pareto efficient. If it is not, then it is beyond the top of the Laffer curve and there exists a tax cut that is self-financing. The test depends on the income distribution, extensive and intensive labor supply elasticities, and income effect parameters. A tax-transfer system is likely to be inefficient ...

    In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 118 (2016), 4, 646-665 | Normann Lorenz, Dominik Sachs
  • Does Commuting Matter to Subjective Well-Being?

    How and why commuting contributes to our well-being is of considerable importance for transportation policy and planning. This paper analyses the relation between commuting and subjective well-being by considering several cognitive (e.g., satisfaction with family life, leisure, income, work, health) and affective (e.g., happiness, anger, worry, sadness) components of subjective well-being. Fixed-effects ...

    In: Journal of Transport Geography 66 (2018), January 2018, 180-199 | Olga Lorenz
  • Long road to ruin? Essays examining the effects of commuting on health and well-being

    Flexibility and spatial mobility of labour are central characteristics of modern societies which contribute not only to higher overall economic growth but also to a reduction of interregional employment disparities. For these reasons, there is the political will in many countries to expand labour market areas, resulting especially in an overall increase in commuting. The picture of the various, unintended ...

    2017, | Olga Lorenz
  • “Is your commute really making you fat?”: The causal effect of commuting distance on height-adjusted weight

    This paper explores the causal relationship between commuting distance and height-adjusted weight (BMI) in Germany, using micro-level data for the period 2004 – 2012. In contrast to previous papers, we find no evidence that longer commutes are associated with a higher BMI. The non-existence of a relationship between BMI and commuting distance prevails when physical activity and eating habits are adjusted ...

    2016, | Olga Lorenz, Laszlo Goerke
  • Trends in Self-Employment in Germany: Different Types, Different Developments? (Chapter Two)

    In: Richard Arum, Walter Müller , The Reemergence of Self-Employment: A comparative study of self-employment dynamics and social inequality
    Princeton: Princeton University Press
    36-74
    | Henning Lohmann, Silvia Luber
  • The different faces of in-work poverty across welfare state regimes

    In: Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Henning Lohmann , The Working Poor in Europe. Employment, Poverty and Globalization
    Cheltenham, Northampton: Edward Elgar
    17-46
    | Henning Lohmann, Ive Marx
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