Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Human Capital Decay and Persistence. A Simulation Approach to German Unemployment

State Dependence Effects in Quarterly Unemployment Histories

Monte Carlo integration: an application to labour market states and transitions

New Patterns of Labor Mobility - A panel analysis of job changes and unemployment

This paper tests for state dependence in histories of unemployment and job mobility from the first six waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Transitions between states of employment and unemployment are modelled as outcomes of binomial probit processes which are first and higher order Markov. The use of simulation estimation allows quite general intertemporal covariance structures in order ...

The Evolution of the School-Entry: Age Effect in a School Tracking System

In Germany, students are streamed at age ten into an academic or non-academic track. We demonstrate that the randomly allocated disadvantage of being born just before as opposed to just after the cutoff date for school entry leads to substantially different schooling experiences. Relatively young students are initially only two-thirds as likely to be assigned to the academic track. The possibility ...

Parental Benefits and Maternal Labour Supply: Evidence from Germany (thesis)

This paper aims to estimate the effects of a reduction in the size of parental benefits in the second year after birth on maternal labour supply. I exploit exogeneous variation in the size of benefits that occurred due to reforms of the parental benefit system on the national and federal state level in Germany. The reforms led to reductions in the size of benefits depending on the household type and ...

Asymptotic income distribution in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP): Income inequality and Darwinian fitness

In this paper, the relation between income inequality and population growth is analized from a Darwinian perspective. A Markov chain population growth model is presented and estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We estimate both population growth rates and steady-state income distribution for males and females. The results are compatible with the traditional age-based population ...

Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective

This paper considers the effects on current pensioner incomes of reforms designed to improve the long-term sustainability of public pension systems in the European Union. We use EUROMOD to simulate a set of common illustrative reforms for four countries selected on the basis of their diverse pension systems and patterns of poverty among the elderly: Denmark, Germany, Italy and the UK. The variations ...

Educational inequalities in subjective health in Germany from 1994 to 2014: a trend analysis using the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP)

Introduction: As trend studies have shown, health inequalities by income and occupation have widened or remained stable. However, research on time trends in educational inequalities in health in Germany is scarce. The aim of this study is to analyse how educational inequalities in health evolved over a period of 21 years in the middle-aged population in Germany, and whether the trends differ by gender. ...

Economic analysis of migration flows to Germany focusing on Spanish emigrants

This essay economically analyses the different international immigration flows Germany has experienced (with a special emphasis on Spanish population) since the end of World War II: guest workers period and post-financial crisis. Both waves are characterized by the contrasting educational level required by German employers according to the labor market needs. However, the language skills appear to ...