Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Institute for the Study of Labor - IZA Highlights 1998-2008

Does the Calculation Hold? The Fiscal Balance of Migration to Denmark and Germany

Calculating the net fiscal effects of immigration not just for a fiscal year but over the lifespan of immigrant cohorts accentuates the assets and deficits in migration and integration policies and their long-term potential. The less national policies concentrate on a labor migrant selection process according to economic criteria, the higher the risk of generating economic losses or only a reduced ...

Geographically Referenced Data in Social Science - A service paper for SOEP data users

Do Employers Have More Monopsony Power in Slack Labor Markets?

This article confronts monopsony theory’s predictions regarding workers’ wages with observed wage patterns over the business cycle. Using German administrative data for the years 1985 to 2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, the authors construct a time series of the labor supply elasticity to the firm and estimate its relationship to the unemployment rate. They find that firms ...

Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and workplace characteristics and unobserved ...

Does diabetes prevention pay for itself? Evaluation of the M.O.B.I.L.I.S. program for obese persons

In response to the growing burden of obesity, public primary prevention programs against obesity have been widely recommended. Several studies have estimated the cost-effectiveness of diabetes-prevention trials for different countries. Nevertheless, it is still controversial if prevention conducted in more real-world settings and among people with increased risk but not yet exhibiting increased glucose ...

Loneliness in Older Adults in the USA and Germany: Measurement Invariance and Validation

Loneliness is a subjective experience characterized by the distress that accompanies a perceived deficit in social relationship quantity and especially quality. Feelings of loneliness increase risk for morbidity and mortality, and these health costs are particularly evident in older age and as lonely feelings persist over time. The scope of the problem of loneliness in older age is not yet well understood, ...

Establishing Frameworks of Contentment: Income Satisfaction in Germany, 1991

Can self-assessed risk attitudes predict behavior under risk? Evidence from a field study in China

This paper examines whether the self-assessed risk attitude predicts individual choice under risk in a field study on a sample of more than 200 Chinese farmers. Farmers’ self-assessed risk attitudes are elicited by the widely used German socio-economic panel (SOEP) general risk question. Individual choice in the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET) is tested. Results show that the self-assessed willingness ...

Subjective Well-Being: Revisions to Dynamic Equilibrium Theory Using National Panel Data and Panel Regression Methods

This paper partly revises the dynamic equilibrium (DE) theory of subjective wellbeing (SWB), sometimes termed set point theory. Results from four national panel surveys show that correlations among measures of SWB diminish over time, and that the SWB set points of a minority of individuals substantially change. These results mean that DE theory requires revision to make it more dynamic and enable it ...