The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Evolution, Scope and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen

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“…The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) is a longitudinal household panel study conducted from 1984 onwards in West Germany and from 1991 in the former GDR, or East Germany (Wagner et al 2007). In each participating household, all persons aged 18 years and older fill out a personal questionnaire every year, typically in spring.…”

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Changing health inequalities in Germany from 1994 to 2008 between employed and unemployed adults

Kroll

Lampert

2011

Int J Public Health

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Objectives:Unemployment is a major determinant of health. We investigate whether health inequalities with regards to employment status have changed in Germany. Methods:We used longitudinal data for the years 1994 to 2008 from a representative panel study (GSOEP). The sample consisted of respondents aged 30 to 59 years (15 waves, 21,329 persons, 129,526 observations). We analyzed trends and determinants of self-rated health status by employment status using logistic regression and fixedeffects logistic panel models. Results:Health inequalities by employment status increased significantly by 72% in men and by 16% in women after controlling covariates. The trends were partly mediated by consequences of unemployment such as income loss, income poverty, life satisfaction and economic sorrows. Using regression models for panel data we confirmed that the observed increases in health inequalities at the population level also exist at the individual level. Discussion:Altogether, our findings indicate that health inequalities with regards to employment status increased among men between 1994 und 2008. This observation is in line with increasing income inequalities in Germany and with increasing health inequalities in other European countries.

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Changing health inequalities in Germany from 1994 to 2008 between employed and unemployed adults

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Lampert

2011

Int J Public Health

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“…The SOEP began in 1984 with a sample of adult members from randomly selected households in West Germany. Since 1984, the SOEP has expanded to include East Germany and also added various sub-samples to maintain a representative sample of the entire German population (Wagner, Frick, & Schupp, 2007). The SOEP is one of the primary socio-economic datasets with which hundred articles have been published (see http://www.diw.de/en/diw_02.c.221182.en/publications_with_soep_data.html).…”

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Personality change following unemployment.

Boyce

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Daly

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Journal of Applied Psychology

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Unemployment has a strongly negative influence on well-being, but it is unclear whether it also alters basic personality traits. Whether personality changes arise through natural maturation processes or contextual/environmental factors is still a matter of debate. Unemployment, a relatively unexpected and commonly occurring life event, may shed light on the relevance of context for personality change. We examined, using a latent change model, the influence of unemployment on the five-factor model of personality in a sample of 6,769 German adults, who completed personality measures at 2 time points 4 years apart. All participants were employed at the first time point, and a subset became unemployed over the course of the study. By the second time point, participants had either remained in employment, been unemployed from 1 to 4 years, or had experienced some unemployment but become reemployed. Compared with those who had remained in employment, unemployed men and women experienced significant patterns of change in their mean levels of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness, whereas reemployed individuals experienced limited change. The results indicate that unemployment has wider psychological implications than previously thought. In addition, the results are consistent with the view that personality changes as a function of contextual and environmental factors.

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“…The data are highly suitable for the present analysis because questions about well-being are central to these studies (cf. Taylor et al 2006, Wagner et al 2007). 1…”

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Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. Abstract This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the analysis shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the second age stage, well-being clearly increases and has a second turning point (maximum) after which well-being decreases in the third age stage. Several reasons for the three-phase pattern are discussed. We point to the fact that neither polynomial functions of the third nor the fourth degree describe the relationship adequately: polynomials locate the minimum and the maximum imprecisely. In addition, our analysis discusses the indistinguishability of age, period, and cohort effects: we propose estimating age-period models that control for cohort effects including substantive variables, such as the life expectancy of the birth cohort, and further observed socioeconomic characteristics in the regression.Keywords: subjective well-being, li...

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Evolution, Scope and Enhancements

Cited by 1,621 publications

References 49 publications

Changing health inequalities in Germany from 1994 to 2008 between employed and unemployed adults

Changing health inequalities in Germany from 1994 to 2008 between employed and unemployed adults

Personality change following unemployment.

Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

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