Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Gender Differences in the Earnings Mobility of Migrants

This study analyzes gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in Germany. The analysis takes into account potential influences like assortative mating in the form of ethnic marriages and the parental integration measured by parents’ years since migration. First, intergenerational earnings elasticities are estimated at the mean and along the earnings ...

Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?

Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffers from mental illness. Multiple regression shows that mental illness ...

Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons

In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing criteria; then we propose some scalar measures. We show that our ex post criteria are mostly obtained from "seemingly" ...

Social Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum (supporting online material)

Causal Returns to Education: A Survey on Empirical Evidence for Germany

Natives and Migrants in Home Production: The Case of Germany

In this paper, we assess the impact of international migration and the induced homecare service labor supply shock on fertility decisions and the labor supply of native females in Germany. Specifically, we consider the individual data of native women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and merge them with data on the share of female immigrants and other regional labor market characteristics. We provide ...

Trends and Driving Factors in Income Distribution and Poverty in the OECD Area

Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries in the Second Half of the 1990s

Income distribution and poverty in the OECD area: Trends and driving forces

Social Structure and Social Policy: About the Institutional Flexibility of Three Modern Welfare States

This paper addresses the question of the institutional flexibility of three major European welfare states. Using Data from the second and fifth wave of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we measure first how effectively the German, British and Italian welfare state have responded to changes in their country-specific poverty risks profile. Further, we apply a macro-simulation to evaluate the performance ...