The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP IS)
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2015 Richter, David, Schupp, Jürgen
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The Economic Consequences of Divorce in Germany: What Has Changed since the Turn of the Millennium?
Comparative Population Studies, 2015 Our analysis of data from almost 30 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) shows that the economic consequences of divorce are still more negative for women than for men despite increased female labour force participation and ...
Miriam Bröckel, Hans-Jürgen Andreß
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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches: Evidence from German Panel Data [PDF]
Using individual based micro-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), I analyze the cyclicality of real wages for male workers within employer-employee matches over the period 1984-2004, and compare different wage measures: the standard ...
Silke Anger
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One Last Puff?: Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior [PDF]
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing
Michael Kvasnicka +2 more
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Representative Wealth Data for Germany from the German SOEP: The Impact of Methodological Decisions around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit [PDF]
The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data-collection stage may
Eva M. Sierminska +2 more
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Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages [PDF]
This study examines the relationship between individual risk aversion and reservation wages using a novel set of direct measures of individual risk attitudes from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
Markus Pannenberg
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Adaptation to Income over Time: A Weak Point of Subjective Well-Being [PDF]
This article holds the view that intertemporal comparisons of subjective well-being measures are only meaningful when the underlying standards of judgment are unaltered. This is a weak point of such measures.
Christoph Wunder
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Familiale Ressourcen und Bildungschancen: Konsequenzen eines frühzeitigen Elternverlustes
Journal of Family Research, 2002 This project consists of theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of early parental loss, especially the death of a parent, an educational opportunities for children and youth.
Steffen Hillmert
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Re-engaging with Survey Non-respondents: The BHPS, SOEP and HILDA Survey Experience [PDF]
Previous research into the correlates and determinants of non-response in longitudinal surveys has focused exclusively on why it is that respondents at one survey wave choose not to participate at future waves. This is very understandable if non-response
Mark Wooden, Nicole Watson
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The Set-Point Theory of Well-Being Needs Replacing: On the Brink of a Scientific Revolution? [PDF]
Set-point theory has dominated the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It has served as a classic Kuhn research paradigm, being extended and refined for thirty years totake in new results. The central plank of the theory is that adult set-points do not
Bruce Headey
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