Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics (Dissertation)

The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective

To shed light on the differential impact of firm shutdowns across the distribution of workers, we adopt the wage determination framework of Bonhomme, Lamadon, and Manresa (2019) to uncover workers’ unobserved types. Worker types relate to workers’ position in the wage distribution: all else equal, a higher type implies higher wages. We use the universe of social security records of Italy’s Veneto region, ...

Adverse birth outcomes and parental labor market participation after birth

Numerous articles have looked at the connection between adverse birth outcomes (low birth weight or preterm birth) and an individual's later socioeconomic status. To this day very few studies have been conducted that specifically address how delivery and adverse birth outcomes affect families and the homes where children grow up. In this study, I use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) ...

Maternal mental health and adverse birth outcomes

Recent research in economics emphasizes the role of in utero conditions for the health endowment at birth and in early childhood and for social as well as economic outcomes in later life. This paper analyzes the relation between maternal mental health during pregnancy and birth outcomes of the child. In particular, we analyze the relationship between maternal mental health during pregnancy and the ...

Chapter 24: Pre- and perinatal influences on intergenerational transmission of inequality

Many researchers argue that children in poorer households are at a higher risk of adverse conditions in-utero and shortly after birth, which in turn could affect their later-life outcomes negatively. In this article, we present a summary of recent articles that have contributed to a better understanding of the relevance of prenatal and perinatal outcomes on the process of intergenerational transmission ...

Relative education of recent refugees in Germany and the Middle East: Is selectivity reflected in migration and destination decisions?

In this paper, relative education profiles of recent refugees arriving to Germany from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are described and compared to the profiles of Syrians in Jordan and Lebanon and of internally displaced Iraqis. Relative education describes a migrant's position in the educational distribution of the origin population. For recent refugees, relative education could be reflected in ...

Spatial overlap: trade-offs in refugees' residential choices

Social science research gives rise to what we call the 'refugee mobility puzzle': While restrictions on the freedom of residence limit refugees' socio-economic integration, those who do not face such restrictions often move to areas with high unemployment that similarly hinder their labor market prospects. This study addresses a central element of this puzzle: What draws refugees to ...

SHARE Corona Survey 2 Questionnaire Adaptations

Technical report on the 2022 IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey-" Ukrainian refugees in Germany"(Wave 1)

Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support

A growing literature examines how economic threat affects support for anti-establishment parties. While most existing work focuses on transforming labor markets as a source of anxiety, we advance the literature by studying changes in urban development and rent price appreciation. Our analysis examines the case of Germany, the country with the highest share of rental housing in the European Union. Combining ...