Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration. Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants

Parental impact on attitude formation: A siblings study on worries about immigration

The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable home education on attitude formation. Yet, factors such as parents’ knowledge, their morals, and their weltanschauung are likely to influence the attitudes of the next generation.Their omission from the analysis thus threatens to lead to erroneous conclusions. Utilizing siblings data ...

Life-cycle variations in the association between current and lifetime earnings: Evidence for German natives and guest workers

In many economic models a central variable of interest is lifetime or permanent income which is not observed in survey data sets and typically proxied by annual income information. To assess the quality of such approximations, we use a unique source of lifetime earnings — the German pension system — and focus on two important issues that have been largely ignored in the existing literature. The first ...

Management Quality, Firm Size, and Managerial Compensation: A Comparison between Germany and the UK

Sport for all in aging societies - Findings from Germany

Cohort effects in physical inactivity. A neglected category and its health economical implications

Demographic and economic factors influencing inclusion in the German sport system - a microanalysis of the years 1985 to 2005

Decreasing Sports Activity With Increasing Age? Findings From a 20-year Longitudinal and Cohort Sequence Analysis

According to cross-sectional studies in sport science literature, decreasing sports activity with increasing age is generally assumed. In this paper, the validity of this assumption is checked by applying more effective methods of analysis, such as longitudinal and cohort sequence analyses. With the help of 20 years' worth of data records,from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the development of ...

Testing Missing at Random Using Instrumental Variables

This article proposes a test for missing at random (MAR). The MAR assumption is shown to be testable given instrumental variables which are independent of response given potential outcomes. A nonparametric testing procedure based on integrated squared distance is proposed. The statistic?s asymptotic distribution under the MAR hypothesis is derived. In particular, our results can be applied to testing ...

Is there a "dead-anyway" effect in willingness to pay for risk reduction?

In a recent paper, Pratt and Zeckhauser (JPE, 1996) discuss the measure of individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for the reduction of risks to their lives which should be used for public decisions on risk-reducing projects. They suggest to correct observed WTP for the "dead-anyway" effect, which says that WTP increases with the level of risk to which the individual is exposed - an effect ...