Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Factor Shares and Income Inequality - Empirical Evidence from Germany 2002-2008

We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and evaluate the implications of changes in the functional distribution of income upon the distribution of income ...

Child-Free and Unmarried: Changes in the Life Planning of Young East German Women

Universalism and Targeting: An International Comparison Using the LIS Database

Representative evidence on lying costs

A central assumption in economics is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Several recent models depart from this assumption and posit that some people do not lie or at least do not lie maximally. These models invoke many different underlying motives including intrinsic lying costs, altruism, efficiency concerns, or conditional cooperation. To provide ...

Country differences in the relationship between incomes and wage rates of working partners

This paper investigates the relevance of the cultural and economic country context for differences in the effect of male partner in come on female income and wage rate for 9,373 respondents in 13 European countries. Data taken from the European Community and Household Panel (ECHP), which comprises information on partner income trends between 1994 and 2001, were used to estimate fixed effect models. ...

Earnings Inequality in Germany

Cross-country inequality trends

Why do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Beyond Becker - Training in Imperfect Labour Markets

Individual Differences and Political Contexts –The Role of Personality Traits and Direct Democracy in Explaining Political Protest

Building on a growing literature concerned with the link between psychological dispositions and political protest behavior, we argue that this relationship is not universal, but rather depends on contextual factors. Political context factors are able to alter the meaning and understanding of participatory repertoires. This, in turn, leads to differential effects of personality on participation. We ...