Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany

Language usage, participation, employment and earnings: Evidence for foreigners in West Germany with multiple sources of selection

The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany

Immigrant-native wage differentials are observed in many countries, so in Germany. However, the available empirical literature for Germany defined the groups in consideration, immigrants and natives, by citizenship. This limits the explanatory power of the estimates since citizenship distinguishes foreigners and German nationals, but assigns naturalised immigrants (including the large group of ethnic ...

Exactly How has Income Inequality Changed? Patterns of Distributional Change in Core Societies

How Has Income Inequality Grown? The Reshaping of the Income Distribution in LIS Countries

Good bye Lenin (or not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?

A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-Transition Germany 1999-2006. Accounting for Sample Selection

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a decade after reunification. For that purpose, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1999 – 2006, and implement the decomposition methodologies of Fields (2003) and Yun (2006). I find that during the sub-period 1999-2002 each of the characteristics effect, ...

Changes in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany during a Period of Rising Wage Inequality 1999-2006: Was it Discrimination in the Returns to Human Capital?

In this article I analyze the changes in the gender wage gap in the western region, eastern region and in reunified Germany during the period 1999 – 2006. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and implement two alternative decomposition methodologies; the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991) decomposition, and a methodology that totally differences the Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) decomposition, found ...

Non-cognitive skills, occupational choices, and entrepreneurship: an empirical analysis of entrepreneurs' career choices

Entrepreneurship literature provides evidence that non-cognitive skills, such as personality traits, predict entrepreneurial behaviour in terms of creating and managing a business venture. This study shows that an entrepreneurship-prone personality is strongly associated with other career decisions that are likely to lead to entrepreneurship, such as a choice of an occupation. Empirical analysis is ...