Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Migration networks and migration decision-making

Drawing on the rational choice approach and the economic sociology of migration, this article discusses the role of social networks in terms of location-specific social capital. It discusses relations between sociological and economic aspects of migration and outlines the influence of social capital on migration decision-making and chain migration processes. There have been various attempts to measure ...

Migration and Statistics

The field of empirical migration and integration research is characterised by a wide range of research questions, theoretical approaches and data sets. Research based on official statistics has to deal with different data sets on migration and foreign population resulting in different numbers. Developments in official statistics concentrate on the improvement of data quality. The census 2010/2011 or ...

Migration and Statistics

The field of empirical research on migration and integration encompasses a wide range of research questions, theoretical approaches, and datasets. Research based on official statistics has to deal with diverse datasets for information on migration and foreign populations, resulting in miscellaneous statements. Recent developments in official statistics have concentrated on the improvement of data quality. ...

Problems of Poverty and Social Security Reform in Germany

Lifecycle bias in estimates of intergenerational earnings persistence

Demanding Work. The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy

Functional Form and Heterogeneity in Models for Count Data

Exploring Shorrocks Mobility Indices Using European Data

Starting from the approach proposed by Schluter and Trede (2003) we develop a continuous and alternative measure of mobility which first, allows to identify mobility over different parts of the earnings distribution and second, to distinguish between mobility that tends to reduce or increase the level of permanent inequality. This paper focuses on four European countries, Denmark, Germany, Spain and ...

New patterns of class persistence for young people? (Dissertation)

The dissertation project looks at the development of intergenerational class mobility in young age cohorts in Germany over the last two decades. Differences between women and men are analyzed employing both descriptive measures as well as statistical estimation techniques (logistic regression). The study uses the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). Next to class specific obstacles to social mobility ...

Gender and economic inequality