Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Rise in Occupational Mobility Especially Amongst Women and Young People

All Goes Faster but Lasts Longer: Computer Work and Overtime Work

Unpaid overtime, the use of personal computers and wage differentials

Is There a Varying Unexplained Gender Wage Gap in Germany?

The nonlinear link between height and wages in Germany, 1985-2004

Based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, this article investigates the relationship between height and wages by gender. Unlike previous investigations, which have been limited to an examination of linear effects, this one finds that height influences on wages are curvilinear, and more so for men than for women. More specifically, it finds that women who are shorter than average and men who ...

Are Tall People Less Risk Averse than Others?

This paper examines the question of whether risk aversion of prime-age workers is negatively correlated with human height to a statistically significant degree. A variety of estimation methods, tests and specifications yield robust results that permit one to answer this question in the affirmative. Hausman-Taylor panel estimates, however, reveal that height effects disappear if personality traits and ...

Transitions between employment, unemployment and entrepreneurial activities - evidence from Germany (thesis)

Dealing with Space and Place in Standard Survey Data

Heterogeneity of local conditions and spatial dependencies are typical aspects of sociological phenomena. However, large-scale empirical data is often rather limited with regard to the spatial references that are (publicly) available to researchers. We describe several aspects of the problem and assess possibilities and potential errors associated with limited information. Our examples are returns ...

Nursing home entry in Germany and the United States

The Dynamics of Long-Term Care Service Use in Germany

Population aging and changing family patterns have made elder care an important issue. In 1994, German lawmakers enacted a major reform in the country's long-term care policy, the Dependency Insurance Act (DIA). How, and in what way, will the relative use of formal and informal long-term care services change in response? We address this question using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic ...