Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Part-Time Job Satisfaction Puzzle: Different Types of Job Discrepancies and the Moderating Effect of Family Importance

Although part-time employment often appears as a substandard form of employment, evidence that part-time employees are less satisfied than full-time employees is ambiguous. To shed more light on this puzzle, I test an extended discrepancy theory framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The results help explain previous inconsistent findings: Part-time employment increases the chances ...

Redistribution as Governmental Regulation Instrument: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland

Although prosperity and a fair distribution of life chances belong to the constitutional socio-political aims in modern societies, we can observe that considerable distributional differences of material and immaterial resources still exist. To prevent or reduce social inequality the state can firstly try to establish equal conditions, and/or secondly equal achievements. How well the implementation ...

The Attitudes Towards the Euro: An Empirical Study based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?

The Nordic model relies on high tax rates to finance an extensive welfare state. If labour supply elasticities are large, the burden of financing the model can be large even if, arguably, the practice of providing subsidised goods that support labour supply is likely to mitigate these effects. We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, including the four major Nordic countries, ...

Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth

This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence parameter between the two variables and study whether accounting for wealth and income jointly reveals a different pattern of social inequality than the traditional ...

The Joint Distribution of Household Income and Wealth. Evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study

The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth

Do the Elderly Reduce Housing Equity? An International Comparison

Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward

Comparative Analysis of Family Benefits in Germany, Belgium, France, Great-Britain and Luxembourg