Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Living on the Poverty Line - Lone Mothers in Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Sweden

The paper focuses on the circumstances that explain lone mothers' dynamics of poverty in five different European settings (Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Sweden) using household panel data. My aim is to tackle the problem of poverty comparatively, dynamically, and with a gender perspective. This paper attempts to answer questions such as: "How do lone mothers experience poverty? ...

Women and Poverty Dynamics - The Case of Germany and Britain

Using household panel data, this article analy ses women's poverty in (West) Germany and Britain comparatively, dynamically and with a gender-friendly perspective. It explores pov erty dynamics, in terms of characteristics and duration of poverty spells; it underlines the in teraction between critical events and changes in resource distribution (family, labour market and welfare) in determining ...

Living on the Poverty Line - A Comparative, Dynamic, Analysis of Lone Mothers' Poverty in Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Sweden

Lone Mothers and Poverty in Italy, Germany and Great Britain - Evidence from Panel Data

This paper focuses on lone mothers' poverty in the Italian familistic welfare regime. In order to appreciate its peculiarities, the study of the Italian case will be developed comparatively by taking into account two other European settings, characterised by strong diversities in the resource distribution systems (family, labour market and welfare) and by a different consistence of female economic ...

An Introduction to Longitudinal Research

Longitudinal Research: An Emergent Method in the Social Sciences

Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Research based in the United States, with its relatively open educational system, has found that personality mediates the relationship between parents’ and child’s educational attainment and this mediational pattern is especially beneficial to students from less-educated households. Yet in highly structured, competitive educational systems, personality characteristics may not predict attainment or ...

Measuring the Distribution of Well-Being: Why Income and Consumption Give Different Answers

Under-Utilisation of Holiday Entitlements as a Career Investment

The existing literature has provided evidence for the hypothesis that employees work unpaid overtime, because they regard it as an investment in their career. I show that the determinants of the under-utilisation of holiday entitlements in the United Kingdom and Germany are widely similar to those of unpaid overtime work. The main finding of the study is that the investment hypothesis determines this ...

Social influences on trajectories of self-rated health: evidence from Britain, Germany, Denmark and the United States

Background: We investigate social inequalities in self-rated health dynamics for working-aged adults in four nations, representing distinct welfare regime types. The aims are to: describe average national trajectories of self-rated health over a 7-year period; identify social determinants of cross-sectional and longitudinal health; and compare cross-national patterns. Methods: Data are from national ...