Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Do Germans Save to Leave an Estate? An Examination of the Bequest Motive

The Distribution of the German Public-Private Wage Gap

Age, Cohort, and the Slump of Job Satisfaction among West German Workers

Using German panel data, I examine the long-term development in satisfaction with work from 1984 until 2001. As was the case for many other industrialized countries, Germany witnessed a sharp decline in workers’ self-reported job satisfaction in the late 1980s and 1990s, the reason of which is yet unknown. I present a cohort analysis of job satisfaction using various identifying assumptions to examine ...

Unemployment, recall error, and life satisfaction

The Welfare Costs of Addiction

The Geographic Mobility of Dual-Earner Couples: Does Gender Ideology Matter?

Retrospective Error in SOEP Calendar Data: The Case of Unemployment

Gender ideology, division of housework, and the geographic mobility of families

Health insurance status and physician-induced demand for medical services in Germany: New evidence from combined district and individual level data

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured patients than for statutorily insured patients. This price variation creates incentives to induce demand primarily among the privately ...

Unemployment, life satisfaction and retrospective error