Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Health and the Decision to Invest in Education

The paper analyses the relationship between health and education in a two period human capital framework. The resulting substitution and investment effects between health and advanced training work in opposite direction and leave open questions for the empirical part. As econometric model we use a random effects probit model for panel data. Our data consist of 322 individuals for the two years 2004 ...

Nonparametric estimation of the coefficient of overlapping - theory and empirical application

Explaining Rising Income Inequality in Germany, 1991-2010

In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim to identify the main drivers of this rise in income inequality since the early 1990s. We provide a broad overview of the circumstances under which inequality evolved, i.e. which changes in the German economy are most likely to provide an explanation for changes in income concentration. ...

The Importance of Peer Relatedness at School for Affective Well-Being in Children: Between- and Within-Person Associations

Abstract Two intensive longitudinal studies examining the association between children's feeling of relatedness to peers at school and their affective well-being were performed. In Study 1, 110 third and fourth graders reported on their positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) 4 times daily and on their peer relatedness once a day over 4 weeks. Multilevel analyses revealed that children who ...

Trade Unions and Minimum Wages (Dissertation)

Country-of-Origin Differences in the Earnings of German Immigrants

The Earnings Dynamics of Immigrant Labor

The Country of Origin, Family Structure and Return Migration of Germany's Guest-Workers

Relative Wage Effects of German Unions

The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows