Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Long-Term Disability Is Associated With Lasting Changes in Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From Two Nationally Representative Longitudinal Studies

Personality and Subjective Well-Being

Using the german socio-economic panel study to assess age-related changes in life satisfaction

Do People Really Adapt to Marriage?

Training the East German Labour Force (Dissertation)

Earnings and Employment Effects of Continuous Off-the-Job Training in East Germany After Unification

The effects of continuous off-the-job training (OFT) for East Germans after unification are analyzed in terms of their earnings and employment probabilities. Using the potential outcome approach to causality as general framework, different matching procedures are suggested for the estimation. They allow for permanent and transitory shocks that influence OFT participation and labor market outcomes. ...

The Effect of Enterprise-related Continuous Vocational Training in East Germany on Individual Employment and Earnings

The paper studies the returns from enterprise-related continuous vocational training on individual earnings, unemployment probabilities, and other labour market indicators in East Germany after unification. It attempts to solve the intrinsic identification problem of such evaluation problems nonparametrically by using restrictions "produced" by unification as well as by using very informative ...

The Prospective Effect of Life Satisfaction on Life Events

Life satisfaction (LS) is prospectively associated with the occurrence of several major events in work and family life. Analyzing longitudinal data from three nationally representative panel studies (Ns between 2,321 and 18,692), the authors found that higher LS is associated with a higher likelihood of marriage and childbirth, and with a lower likelihood of marital separation, job loss, starting a ...

Studying Changes in Life Circumstances and Personality: It's About Time

Most theories of personality development posit that changes in life circumstances (e.g. due to major life events) can lead to changes in personality, but few studies have examined the exact time course of these changes. In this article, we argue that time needs to be considered explicitly in theories and empirical studies on personality development. We discuss six notions on the role of time in personality ...

Stability and variability in the relationship between subjective well-being and income

Empirical studies typically find a moderate positive correlation between subjective well- being (SWB) and income. In the present paper, we examined stable and transient determinants of the relation between affective well-being and income in the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS; N = 37,041) and the relation between cognitive well-being and income in the BHPS (N = 31,871) and the Socio-Economic Panel ...