Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe

Recent studies emphasize the impact of macroeconomic factors on educational attainment. They show that although individual factors like the educational level of one’s parents play a decisive role in determining the human capital accumulation of the children, the cohort size as well as the local labor market seem to have a significant impact, too. This paper analyzes the impact of birth cohort size ...

Returns to Education in Europe. Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey

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

Microdata Adjustment by the Minimum Information Loss Principle

Time and Economic Well-Being - A Panel Analysis of Desired versus Actual Working Hours

Time Use Research and Time Use Data - Actual Topics and New Frontiers

Time Use and Time Budgets: Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care programmes, among others" (United Nations). This expertise will discuss recent developments, improvements ...

Time Use and Time Budgets

Time use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labor; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care programmes, among others” (United Nations). This advisory report will discuss recent developments, improvements ...

Perceived Job Insecurity, Unemployment Risk and International Trade: A Micro-Level Analysis of Employees in German Service Industries

The present paper investigates the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German service sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts of international trade on (1) the individually reported fear of job loss and (2) job-to-unemployment ...