Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

This article studies long run wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s. These findings are robust in many dimensions. We apply RIF regression based ...

What drives the reversal of the gender education gap? Evidence from Germany

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labour market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is some evidence that the gender gap in upper ...

Heterogeneity in Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions

Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions

This study investigates the mechanisms determining item nonresponse focusing on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be improved by matching interviewers and respondents based on their characteristics? Third, how ...

Absenteeism and Employment Probation - A Panel Study for Germany

Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

New evidence on the complementarity of education and training

Population Aging and Trends in the Provision of Work-Place Training

This study investigates whether the incidence and distribution of work-place training has changed as the German workforce commenced its demographic aging process. As the lifespan in productive employment lengthens human capital investments for older workers become increasingly worthwhile. Using data taken from two different German population surveys we describe recent trends in the development of human ...

Incentive Effects in the Demand for Health Care: A Bivariate Panel Count Data Estimation

Fertility Effects of Child Benefits

We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a difference-in-difference setting. We apply ...