Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Incomplete Risk Adjustment and Adverse Selection in the German Public Health Insurance System

Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities

We outline a formal procedure for deriving the aggregate wage-elasticity of labor supply for a large group of heterogeneous workers who operate under uncertainty. Heterogeneity relates to preferences, income, wealth, and the labor market status. If each worker faces a small, possibly nonuniform wage change, the implied aggregate wage-elasticity can be represented by a closed-form expression. This expression ...

The Effects of Mobility on Neighbourhood Social Ties

This research examines the strength of people’s ties with close neighbours and the sensitivity thereof to changes in residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP). All forms of mobility have increased over time and are negatively associated with visiting ...

Income Comparisons among Neighbours and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany

This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) to investigate whether changes in others' income are perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative and slightly more marked in neighbourhoods where the neighbours interact socially. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income ...

Neighbourhood social ties: how much do residential, physical and virtual mobility matter?

Following up on the prediction by classical sociological theorists that neighbours will become irrelevant as societies become more mobile, this research examines the strength of people’s social ties with neighbours and the associations thereof with residential, physical and virtual mobility using longitudinal data for Germany. Unlike previous studies, the research considers the three forms of mobility ...

Keeping up with the Schmidts - An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context

We test empirically whether people’s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory suggests that individuals are happier the better their relative income position in the neighbourhood is. To test ...

Regional Data in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Social mobility, accumulation of disadvantages and health. An analysis with retrospective data from the GSOEP (2002–14)

Socioeconomic position (SEP) in different life stages is related to health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Yet, research on the relevance of life course processes is scarce. This study aims to analyse the association between accumulation of disadvantages, social mobility and HRQoL. Methods: Analyses were conducted using population-averaged panel-data models and are based on data from the German Socio-Economic ...

Intergenerational Mobility, Redistribution and the Long Term Dynamics of Income Inequality or: Think Of the Children, Too! (Diplomarbeit)

Young and at risk? Consequences of job insecurity for mental health and satisfaction among labor market entrants with different levels of education

Young workers are often temporarily employed and thus likely to experience job insecurity. This study investigates associations of objective job insecurity (i.e., temporary employment) and subjectively perceived job insecurity with mental health, job satisfaction and life satisfaction among young workers, testing the moderating role of education. The longitudinal analysis based on 1522 labor market ...