With SOEP's 2007 data release, a number of changes and additions have been made in the cross-sectional weighting scheme. They apply to the following:. - - Inclusion of refreshment sample H.. - - Classification of West Berlin as belonging to the "new" federal states (of former East Germany).. - -...

This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and introduces the content and structure of the generated dataset "hconsum." In 2010, the SOEP for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the...

Environmental employment is an issue with high interest to the public and to policy makers. Yet, the debate is blurred by a great number of distinct definitions and hence estimates of environmental employment. Therefore it is essential to carefully document delimitations and methods used in any...