Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Income Risks within Retirement in Great Britain and Germany

Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany

The Inter-Industry Wage Structure: Empirical Evidence for Germany and a Comparison With the U.S. and Sweden

Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany

Überstunden sind ein klassisches Instrument zur Steuerung und Veränderung der Arbeitszeit und haben als interne Flexibilitätsmaßnahme von Betrieben eine hohe Bedeutung in Deutschland. Von einer Variation des Arbeitseinsatzes durch Überstunden sind jedoch nicht alle Beschäftigten in gleichem Maße betroffen. Neben sozio-demographischen Faktoren spielen arbeitsplatzspezifische Merkmale eine wichtige Rolle, ...

A Comparison of the Burden of Out‐of‐Pocket Health Payments in Denmark, Germany and Poland

It is important to monitor equity of access to health services in all countries. We assessed the levels of out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending in three European countries: Denmark, Germany and Poland. Using data from national databases (i.e., Statistics Denmark, German Socio-Economic Panel, and National Statistical Office of Poland) for the period 2000–2010, we applied common methods to assess the ...

Earnings Growth for Guest Workers and West Germans - Cross-Section and Panel Estimates

Essays in electricity economics: Empirical, numerical and theoretical perspectives on renewable energy and cross-border integration

Two developments in European electricity markets are eminent: the large-scale deployment of renewable resources and the closer interaction across borders. Both developments entail great potentials for efficiency gains, and imply challenges of integration. This dissertation contributes to the economic understanding of both integration challenges. To this end, it combines empirical, theoretical, and ...

Convergence or divergence? Immigrant wage assimilation patterns in Germany

Using a rich German panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany. This study contributes to the literature by performing separate estimations by skill groups and controlling for a wide range of socio-economic background variables. It aims to answer the question whether Germany can be considered an attractive host country from an immigrant's perspective. Comparisons ...

Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programs

This study is the first to estimate price elasticities of demand for convalescent care programmes. In 1997, the German legislature more than doubled the daily co-payments for the publicly insured from €6 to €13. The measure caused the overall demand for convalescent care treatments to fall by 20 to 25%. I estimate the price elasticity for medical rehabilitation programmes aimed at preventing work disability ...

Measurement of health, health inequality, and reporting heterogeneity

Using representative survey data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of health inequality measures like the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self-assessed health (SAH) are employed. With the use ...