Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Econometric Analyses of Subjective Welfare and Income Inequality (Thesis)

University or job training: Korea and Germany compared

This study is the first to empirically compare the economic returns of human capital in South Korea and Germany. The study, based on the Mincer earnings model (1974), tested whether the wage gap between university graduates and those with lower educational levels is wider in South Korea than in Germany, due to differences in job training. The study estimated the wage gaps by employing random effects ...

Two Aspects of Labor Mobility: A Bivariate Poisson Regression Approach

The study introduces a distinction between two types of labor mobility. Direct job to job changes (which are assumed to be voluntary) and job changes after experiencing an unemployment spell (assumed to be involuntary). Exploiting the close relationship between those two phenomena we adopt a bivariate regression framework for our empirical analysis of data on male individuals in the German labor market. ...

Changes in Employed People’s Health Satisfaction

The article examines for Germany whether the subjective satisfaction with health has changed over the course of time. It is analysed whether a drop in health satisfaction can be observed and whether this can be explained by changing employment circumstances. Labour market research has documented a change in the employment situation in detail, which can be subsumed under the keyword of precarisation. ...

From Gross to Net Wages in German Administrative Data Sets

This data documentation describes selected ways of how to analyze net wages in the weakly anonymous Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies 1975-2010 (SIAB) or other administrative data sets provided by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Among other things, these data sets provide information about dependently employed persons in Germany and their gross wages over time. Due to the ...

Comprehensive evaluation of the Pro Kind home visiting program: A summary of results

This paper provides an overview of the German home visiting program Pro Kind. We conducted a RCT to assess the program effects. A total of 755 women with multiple risk factors were recruited; of those, 394 were assigned to the treatment group. We assessed program influences on family environment, maternal and child health, and child development until the child’s third birthday in regular interviews, ...

Social Inequality & Social Justice: European Welfare States, Conceptions of Social Justice and their Distributive Conequences

Social Inequality, Social Justice and the Life Dimensions Approach

Parent-Child Transfers in Germany - Evidence from Panel Data

Parent-Child-Transfers in Germany: A Study of Magnitude and Motivations

Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Analyse privater Transfers in Deutschland mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP). Für das Jahr 1995 wird die Summe lebzeitiger Eltern-Kind-Transfers auf etwa 17 Milliarden DM geschätzt. Die ökonometrische Analyse basiert auf zwei Unterstichproben aus dem SOEP: einem Eltern-Datensatz, der Informationen über eine große Zahl von Elternhaushalten enthält, und einem ...