Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Disadvantages and Social Exclusion – Constraints on Social Mobility

Based on longitudinal data from the Cross-National Equivalent File 1980 – 2008 (CNEF 1980 – 2008) the paper analyzes the extent and structure of the intergenerational transmission of economic (dis)advantages in Germany, the United States, and Great Britain – countries with different family role models, institutional labor market settings, and welfare state regimes. The empirical results show a high ...

The Intergenerational Dynamics of Social Inequality – Empirical Evidence from Europe and the United States

Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we analyze the intergenerational transmission of economic and social (dis-)advantages in Germany, the United States and Great Britain. We test with the hypotheses that the extent and the determinants of intergenerational income ...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Occupational Preferences, Segregation, and Wage Inequality - Empirical Evidence from Europe and the United States

Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. Notwithstanding the country differences concerning welfare state regimes, institutional settings of the labor ...

The Impact of Informal Care and Employment on the Mental Health of the Caregiver

This study examines whether informal caregiving has a negative effect on the mental health of the caregiver, taking into account additional burdens such as that of holding down a job. The analyses are based on the German Socio–Economic Panel (GSOEP). We estimate fixed–effects regressions of a measure of caregivers’ mental health (SF–12) on hours of informal caregiving, taking into account the relationships ...

Record Linkage of the Linked Employer-Employee Survey of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP-LEE) and the Establishment History Panel (BHP)

This working paper describes the linkage of the SOEP-LEE survey of DIW and University of Bielefeld with administrative data on establishments provided by the Institute for Employment Research.

Equity-regarding poverty measures: Differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales

Indicators of Social Isolation: A Comparison Based on Survey Data from Germany

The paper presents a data-based comparison of three indicators of social isolation that are frequently used in contemporary social research: (a) low frequency of social contact with friends, relatives, and neighbors (social contact indicator); (b) absence of a discussion network (discussion network indicator); (c) absence of social support (support indicator). All three indicators are in line with ...

Recall – A way to mitigate adverse effects of unemployment on earnings across occupations?

We examine the reemployment earnings of workers reemployed by a former employer (known as recall) across different occupations. We first ask whether recalls represent a flexibilization strategy that mitigates adverse unemployment effects on workers’ earnings. And second, whether there are any differences in post-unemployment earnings of recalled workers across different occupations. The article contributes ...

Dynamic modeling of fertility and labor market participation of married and cohabiting women

We model jointly fertility and participation decisions of the women who live in couple using a dynamic model. We analyze, for the period going from 1994 to 2001, the labor supply and the fertility decision of married or cohabiting women in France, Spain, Germany, United-Kingdom and Denmark. We estimate a dynamic bivariate probit model with random effects using the ECHP (European Community household ...

Need for conclusive evidence that positive and negative reciprocity are unrelated