Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Restart-Performance and the Returns of Previous Self-Employment

Essays on Inequality: Income Distribution, (Just) Taxation and Well-being

This dissertation focuses on three dimensions of inequality: income, (just) taxation, and well-being. All chapters focus on a similar time horizon (2000 to 2015) and essentially on the same geographical area, Germany. The chapters are organized in four parts, each examining a specific research question and based on evidence from microdata - the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The analysis of chapter ...

Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children: Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants

We document the educational integration of immigrant children in France and Germany with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher education track attendance ...

Lifestyles - a relevant segmentation tool for the analysis of the socio-residential organisation?

Do welfare and labour market institutions influence unemployment duration of immigrants? Evidence from 11 European countries

This paper investigates the effect of institutions on the unemployment gap between immigrants and natives in 11 EU-countries. We study whether benefits provide disincentive effects as the job-search theory suggests or rather efficiency gains as alternative theories propose. Further than the existing literature, we study unemployment duration instead of unemployment incidence, we distinguish between ...

Using the Dirichlet Process to Form Clusters of People’s Concerns in the Context of Future Party Identification

Connections between interindividual differences and people’s behavior has been widely researched in various contexts, often by using top-down group comparisons to explain interindividual differences. In contrast, in this study, we apply a bottom-up approach in which we identify meaningful clusters in people’s concerns about various areas of life (e.g., their own health, their financial situation, the ...

Child Well-Being in the EU and Enlargement to the East

The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe

Recent studies emphasize the impact of macroeconomic factors on educational attainment. They show that although individual factors like the educational level of one’s parents play a decisive role in determining the human capital accumulation of the children, the cohort size as well as the local labor market seem to have a significant impact, too. This paper analyzes the impact of birth cohort size ...

Returns to Education in Europe. Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey

A matter of perception: Exploring the role of income satisfaction in the income-mortality relationship in German survey data 1995-2010

Individual- and community-level income has been shown to be linked to social inequalities in health and mortality. On the individual level, social comparisons and relative deprivation resulting from them have been identified as relevant mechanisms involved in the relationship between income and health, but it is mainly income-based measures of relative deprivation that have been considered in previous ...