Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Stability of Gosta Esping-Andersen's "The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism"

Sport participation of the elderly—the role of gender, age, and social class

The article provides an overview of the results of cross-sectional and longitudinal data sets concerning sport participation of the elderly in Germany with a focus on correlations of sport participation with gender, age, and social class. A tabular overview lists the most central studies with their study design and publications from 2000 onwards. Findings regarding the motivations for sport participation ...

The Impact of Xenophobic Violence on the Integration of Immigrants

Integration of immigrants is a two-way process involving immigrants and the host country society. An underexplored question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I exploit a unique series of anti-immigrant attacks in the early 1990s in West Germany. Using a difference-in-differences matching strategy, I find that macro exposure ...

On Rich Cities and Boring Places

This paper investigates the effect of city size on income inequality in Germany after reunification. Using the Gini index, income inequality is computed. No correlation between income inequality and city size can be found, but dividing Germany in East and West Germany gives further insight into the dependence. It can be seen that a positive connection between city size and income inequality exists ...

Group Loyalty and Support for the Social Security System: Evidence from Germany

Do Better Educated Immigrants Choose a Higher Reference Income? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Good-bye Lenin On Our Bank Account? Within-Household Allocation in East and West German Couples

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1999–2004, I estimate a collective discrete choice model of female labour supply with non-participation and non-linear taxation. I use the model to infer the share of household net income that women in couples receive for their individual consumption. In particular, I study whether the within-household allocation is more egalitarian for ...

Essais sur l'immigration, le revenu relatif, et la redistribution (Essays über Immigration, relatives Einkommen und Umverteilung; Dissertation)

The Optimal Choice of a Reference Standard for Income Comparisons: Indirect Evidence from Immigrants' Return Visits

Das vorliegende Papier testet die Vorhersage von Falk und Knell (2004), dass eine höhere Produktivität ceteris paribus zu einem höheren Referenzstandard für Einkommensvergleiche führt. Im Modell von Falk und Knell ergibt sich der optimale Referenzstandard aus einem Trade-off zwischen zwei Motiven: Einerseits profitieren Individuen von einem möglichst niedrigen Referenzstandard, da sie bei einem Vergleich ...

Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State? Evidence from Germany

Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, the present paper studies whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. The effect of immigration or ethnic diversity in general on the political support for the welfare state has received increasing attention ...