Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Demand-side determinants of rising hospital admissions in Germany: the role of ageing

In this study, we investigated the relationship between changes in demand-side determinants and changes in hospital admissions. We used longitudinal market-wide data, including a novel detailed measure of population morbidity. To assess the effect of ageing, we interacted age with shifts in the population structure for both the surviving population and the population in their last year of life. We ...

The impact of having children on domain-specific life satisfaction: A quasi-experimental longitudinal investigation using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data

Longitudinal studies have documented improvements in parents’ life satisfaction due to childbearing, followed by postpartum adaptation back to baseline. However, the details underlying this process remain largely unexplored. Based on past literature, set-point theory, and results from an exploratory sample, we investigated empirically how first childbirth affected satisfaction with specific domains ...

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On the way from misery to happiness? A longitudinal perspective on economic migration and well-being

The assessment of returns from migration lies at the very heart of migration research. While a growing body of literature examines the links between migration and well-being, dynamic relationships require further elaboration. Using the longest running, nationally representative panel study with information on well-being, the German Socio-Economic Panel (1985–2016) this article addresses two essential, ...

Returns to Regional Migration: Causal Effect or Selection on Wage Growth?

At the interface of economy, geography and sociology the presentation deals with wage effects of geographic mobility. Investigating pecuniary returns to geographic mobility, researchers have to tackle the problem that migrants assess greater innate ability and motivation. Empirical studies show that migrants are favorably self-selected with respect to human capital characteristics. To get rid of potential ...

Social Inequality, Child Care Attendance and School Start in Germany

This study investigates how far attending child care institutions can reduce delayed school entries in Germany. The influence of child care institutions should be stronger when children attend them at younger ages, and it should vary according to the children's social origins. When parents' cultural resources are low, care institutions should have large additional positive effects on children's ...

Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs - The East German Experience

Modelling Heaping Effects in Unemployment Duration Models - With an Application to Retrospective Event Data in the German Socio-Economic Panel

Don´t Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment

Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness also a driver of behavior and life’s outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists between residual happiness and an unemployed individual’s future reemployment probability and the reentry wage. ...

Empirical Studies of Unemployment: Search Behavior, Reintegration and Prevention (Dissertation)

This dissertation studies the search behavior and future labor market outcomes of the unemployed as well as ways to prevent unemployment, and includes the following questions: How do reservation wages of the unemployed evolve over migrant generations? Do economic preferences play a role when analyzing the reemployment probability of unemployed natives and second generation migrants? Does subjective ...