Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Should I stay, or should I go? An evaluation of immigrant's assimilation from the ECHP

Does European-Style Welfare Generosity Discourage Single Mother Employment?

Purpose: Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers, scholars have rarely exploited cross-national variability in the generosity of social policies to assess this question. This is the case even though much previous scholarship has examined the effects of social policy on women’s and mothers’ labor force engagement. This paper ...

Tenure Choice in the German Housing Market - A Competing Risks Model

The Effects of Elite Sports on Later Job Success

This paper analyses the income effect of the participation in elite sports. To quantify the average difference in the monthly net income of former elite athletes and non-athletes we estimate sample average treatment effect scores (SATT) by using covariate nearest-neighbour matching (CVM). While our treatment group consists of formerly funded top-level athletes, the control group of non-athletes is ...

Remarriage as a Way to Overcome the Financial Consequences of Divorce—A Test of the Economic Need Hypothesis for European Women

In this article, we investigate to what extent remarriage functions as a strategy to overcome post-divorce financial distress, and whether this varies across welfare states. To this end, we estimate the impact of divorced women's income (changes) on repartnering and vice versa, using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel for 11 Member States. Our analyses provide support ...

Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel

We study adaptation to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7812 people living in Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a “happiness equation” defined over several lags of income and status and compare the long-run effects. We can (cannot) reject the hypothesis of no adaptation to income (status) during the four years following an income (status) change. ...

Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics

Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs" (chapter 8)

Labor income uncertainty, skewness and homeownership: A panel data study for Germany and Spain

In this paper we empirically investigate the effect of labor income uncertainty on the probability of homeownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models tend to provide ambiguous results on this issue. Secondly, previous empirical evidence focuses exclusively on the US housing market. To carry out our analysis we propose more precise income uncertainty ...

Housing Satisfaction, Homeownership and Housing Mobility: A Panel Data Analysis for Twelve EU Countries