Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Migration and Statistics

The field of empirical migration and integration research is characterised by a wide range of research questions, theoretical approaches and data sets. Research based on official statistics has to deal with different data sets on migration and foreign population resulting in different numbers. Developments in official statistics concentrate on the improvement of data quality. The census 2010/2011 or ...

Migration and Statistics

The field of empirical research on migration and integration encompasses a wide range of research questions, theoretical approaches, and datasets. Research based on official statistics has to deal with diverse datasets for information on migration and foreign populations, resulting in miscellaneous statements. Recent developments in official statistics have concentrated on the improvement of data quality. ...

Problems of Poverty and Social Security Reform in Germany

Income in Jeopardy: How Losing Employment Affects the Willingness to Take Risks

Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing one’s job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in previous hourly wage, begins to manifest itself as soon as an employee perceives the threat of job loss and is ...

Locus of Control and Performance Appraisal

This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their environment a tool to demonstrate their value and achieve their goals. We confirm that workers who are risk ...

Does Profit Sharing Reduce Conflict with the Boss? Evidence from Germany

Getting along with Colleagues - Does Profit Sharing Help or Hurt?

Varieties of Welfare Capitalism

Family Policy Models and Family Policy Outcomes - A Nordic Perspective

Income Inequality and Self-rated Health Status: Evidence from the European Community Household Panel

We examine the effect of income inequality on individuals’ self-rated health status in a pooled sample of 11 countries, using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel survey. Taking advantage of the longitudinal and cross-national nature of our data, and carefully modeling the self-reported health information, we avoid several of the pitfalls suffered by earlier studies on this ...