Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Imputed Rent and Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis for the Great Britain, West Germany and the U.S.

Item nonresponse on income questions in panel surveys: Incidence, imputation and the impact on inequality and mobility

Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the operationalization of CI in ...

Wealth Inequality on the Rise in Germany

Individual net wealth in Germany totaled an average of around 88,000 Euros at the beginning of 2007 which was about 10 percent higher than in 2002. Decisive for this development was an increase in monetary wealth as well as wealth from private insurance. In connection with the overall quite unequal division of wealth, the median i.e., the value which separates the richest 50 per cent of the population ...

Longitudinal data for behavioural research: The German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Tagung: "Quantitative Models of Economic Behaviour: A Conference in Honor of Guy H. Overette", 20./21.5.1988

Wanted. A New German Wirtschaftswunder

Religious Heterogeneity and Fiscal Policy: Evidence from German Reunification

Theoretical work based on social identity theory predicts that population diversity undermines redistributive public policies. This article tests this proposition exploiting an exogenous shock in diversity due to Germany’s reunification. In contrast to previous work on ethno-linguistic or racial heterogeneity, we specifically analyze religious diversity, which is an increasingly relevant social cleavage ...

Spheres of trust: An empirical analysis of the foundations of particularised and generalised trust

While the literature on trust has produced various conceptual models, there is also some confusion concerning different types of trust and their formation. In this article, three contested points are empirically clarified. First, are there really different forms of trust as much of the literature suggests? Second, if so, then how are these different types of trust related to each other? Third, what ...

Happiness: A Revolution in Economics

Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy