Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Item Non-response in the ECHP

THE Stress Cost of Children on Moms and Dads

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production, we show that births increase time stress, especially among mothers, and that the effects last at least several ...

Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit

How Care Work Employment Shapes Earnings in a Cross-National Perspective

Housework, Money, and Marriage

The sharing of public goods and services is one of the most important gains associated with forming a household, even exceeding the efficiency gains from specialization. Most of household public goods are produced using spouses's time, with men devoting about more than one hour per week to home labor and women spending about three hours. We use evidence from a variety of time-use surveys for a ...

Creating low skilled jobs by subsidising market-contracted household work

Comparing the Determinants of Concern about Terrorism and Crime

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime, the determinants of concerns regarding global terrorism are less well known. Using nationally representative ...

20 Years of German Unification - Evidence of Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a fixed effects vector decomposition method, ...

Can International Migration Solve the Problems of European Labour Markets? (Chapter 5)

Language Skills and Employment Rate of Refugees in Germany Improving with Time

Asylum seekers migrating to Germany remains a hotly debated topic. The second wave of a longitudinal survey of refugees shows that their integration has progressed significantly, even though some refugees came to Germany in poor health and with little formal education. Compared to the previous year, refugees’ German skills have improved, as have their participation rates in the workforce, education, ...