Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Migrants in the German Labor Market - Nationality and Gender-Specific Labor Market Opportunities

Media Coverage and Immigration Worries: Econometric Evidence

This paper empirically explores the link between mass media coverage of migration and immigration worries. Using detailed data on media coverage in Germany, we show that the amount of media reports regarding migration issues is positively associated with concerns about immigration among the German population. The association is robust to the inclusion of time-variant individual control variables and ...

The perception of the income tax: Evidence from Germany

The paper explores whether the tax rule defined by the tax law or the perception of the tax system by the single household matters in explaining household behaviour. In particular, Germany applies joint taxation with marital splitting to married couples. However, the couple has the choice between two formulas when paying the tax. In both cases, the perceived marginal tax rate, i.e. the rate which practically ...

Welfare analysis of Fiscal Reforms: Does the Representation of the Family Decision Process Matter? Evidence from Germany

Welfare Analysis of a Tax Reform for Germany: A Comparison of the Unitary and Collective Models of Household Labour Supply

A Privacy-Protecting Business-Analytics Service for On-Line Transactions

Analysis of consumer-related and consumer-generated data is a very important way to measure the success of on-line retailing. The software packages for data analysis have two major shortcomings: (1) solutions are not offered as a service reachable by standard procedures over the Internet, but as isolated standalone applications or ERP system modules; (2) privacy restrictions need to be integrated into ...

Remuneration of continuing vocational training and skill-building under the German and French education systems

A European Analysis of Changes in Gender Specific Wage Inequality Using Decomposition Methods

Comparing Estimation Strategies for Income Equations in the Presence of Panel Attrition: Empirical Results Based on the ECHP

Since attrition in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) has cumulated to a considerable extent, there is concern that attrition biases empirical analysis. In this paper we compare the performance of four different strategies for estimating an earnings equation in the presence of panel attrition. By splitting the completely observed sample in one wave according to the response behavior of the ...

The estimation of male earnings under panel attrition. A cross country comparison based on the European Community Household Panel

The aim of the paper is analyzing the effect of attrition in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) on earnings equations. By splitting the completely observed sample according to the response behavior of the following wave, we assess empirically the bias of an un-weighted as well as an inverse probability weighted estimator. Our findings lead us to conclude that the problem of attrition is ...