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Voluntary Turnover: What We Measure and What It (Really) Means

In this paper, we run regression analyses to explain voluntary turnover intentions with data from more than 5,000 employees and with about 250 explanatory variables. The findings of our multi-factor approach highlight the fact that previous empirical research might have over-estimated the impact and significance of many factors. We show the relevance of the so-called omitted variable bias to our findings ...

Returns to Education and Experience in Self-Employment: Evidence from Germany

SOEP-IS 2017 – Questionnaire for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update Release 2018) - field version (en)

Documentation of the SOEP Studies - All Survey Papers

Documentation of SOEP-Core (SOEP Survey Papers)

Notes on the use of this site. The questionnaires of SOEP-Core before 2012  can currently only be found under the type of questionnaire 'Survey Instruments', since we have not published the respective questionnaires separately. The letters to the respondents and the interviewer's instructions can be found under the type of questionnaire 'Accompanying Instruments'. The field versions of the ...

Documentation SOEP-IS (SOEP Survey Papers)

A latent class growth model for migrants’ remittances: an application to the German Socio-Economic Panel

We propose a latent class mixture growth model with concomitant variables to study the time profiles of international remittances sent by first-generation migrants in Germany from 1996 to 2012. The latent class approach enables us to identify homogeneous subgroups of migrants associated with different trajectories for their remitting behaviour, which can be interpreted in the light of the theoretical ...

Personality Traits and Obesity

Objective: Previous studies investigating the association between body weight and personality traits have found mixed results. This paper uses a large data set and two different study designs (cross-sectional and longitudinal) to provide more consistent estimates of the effect of personality traits on obesity. Methods: The present study is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) ...

The relationship between age and subjective well-being: Estimating within and between effects simultaneously

In this paper, we employ a correlated random effects econometric framework to simultaneously estimate the within and between effects of age on subjective well-being based on longitudinal survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The proposed approach helps to explain differing findings on the relationship between age and subjective well-being reported in a series of studies based on ...

Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002 and 2004), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system and individual expected public pension payments. This reform ...