Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

How Society Shapes the Health Gradient: Work-Related Health Inequalities in a Comparative Perspective

Analyses in comparative political economy have the potential to contribute to understanding health inequalities within and between societies. This article uses a varieties of capitalism approach that groups high-income countries into coordinated market economies (CME) and liberal market economies (LME) with different labor market institutions and degrees of employment and unemployment protection that ...

Unemployment and Mortality: A Comparative Study of Germany and the United States

Objectives. We examined the relationship between unemployment and mortality in Germany, a coordinated market economy, and the United States, a liberal market economy. Methods. We followed 2 working-age cohorts from the German Socio-economic Panel and the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1984 to 2005. We defined unemployment as unemployed at the time of survey. We used discrete-time survival analysis, ...

Market, State, and the Quality of New Self-Employment Jobs among Men in the U.S. and Western Germany

Recent scholarship suggests that a new form of low-quality, contingent self-employment is taking hold in postindustrial economies. Using longitudinal data on men from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and theGerman Socio-Economic Panel, I find that on average men in Germany and the U.S. do not fare poorly in self-employment, and in both countries a substantial number of new self-employment jobs offer ...

Pathways into Self-Employment in the United States and Germany

Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, this research compares pathways into self-employment among men and women in the United States and Western Germany. Academic and vocational credentials are more important for stabilizing self-employment in the United States than in Germany, where the lack of credentials is a significant deterrent to ...

Married Women’s Work Trajectories and Income Inequality in Germany, Great Britain and the United States

We investigate the impact of married women's breadwinner roles on income inequality in the United States, Germany and Britain. We use longitudinal data and fixed effects time series with lagged endogenous panel regression models to investigate the evolution of couples work careers and women’s earnings in the first five years following union formation. Results from these models are then used to ...

Wage Penalty for Motherhood in Context: Economic Consequences of Motherhoode in the United States and Germany

Women earn less than men, and among women, mothers earn less than non-mothers. Recent evidence reaffirms the importance of parenthood in accounting for the persistent gender gap in earnings in the United States, but the mechanisms that account for this gap are not undisputed, and the wage penalty for motherhood remains poorly understood. Against this background, the paper examines wage penalties for ...

Collective Female Labor Supply: Evidence from Germany

Changes in married women's labor supply behavior in Germany: 1995-2003

Career Choices of German High School Graduates - Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

This paper explores the economic determinants affecting high shcool graduates' career choices in Germany. The estimation results show that high school graduates' career decisions are at least partially determined by economic considerations. Other major determinants are the parental skill-level, and age at the time of Abitur.

The Demand for Higher Education in Germany