Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Imputation of Item-Non-Response on Income Questions in the SOEP 1984-2002

Germany's middle class has shrunk: incomes increasingly polarised from 2000 to 2005

The Shrinking German Middle Class - Signs of Long-Term Polarization in Disposable Income?

Country case study--Germany

The Great Recession (GR) of the late 2000s had a significant but fortunately only temporary impact on the German labour market and economy as a whole. By the last quarter of 2010, nominal GDP had already returned to pre-recession levels and unemployment had reached its lowest levels since reunification. Scholars have described this striking resilience of the German labour market as ‘Germany’s jobs ...

Optimal Age for First Birth: Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden (Chapter 9)

Postponement of Maternity and the Duration of Time Spent at Home after First Birth. Panel Data Analyses Comparing Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands and Sweden

Women's labor force transitions in connection with childbirth: A panel data comparison between Germany, Sweden and Great Britain

Labour supply and commuting

We examine the effect of commuting distance on workers’ labour supply patterns, distinguishing between weekly labour supply, number of workdays per week and daily labour supply. We account for endogeneity of distance by using employer-induced changes in distance. In Germany, distance has a slight positive effect on daily and weekly labour supply, but no effect on the number of workdays. The effect ...

Start Time and Worker Compensation: Implications for Staggered-Hours Programs

There is little known about the effects of staggered-hours programs that affect workers’ working schedules to mitigate peak congestion. We examine the effect of workers’ morning start times on their wages for Germany. In contrast to previous work based on cross-section data, we demonstrate that wages are not, or may be, a slight inverse U-shaped function of start time suggesting that staggered-hours ...

Are workers with a long commute less productive? An empirical analysis of absenteeism

We hypothesise, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the worker's commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether the commute has a positive effect on worker's absenteeism. We identify this effect using employer-induced changes in commuting distance. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about 0.07 to 0.09. ...