Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again? A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics

Transitions on the Labor Market: Unemployment, Transfer Receipt and the Low-Wage-Sector (Dissertation)

Reducing the high unemployment rate is one of the most important and challenging issues facing the German society. The risk of unemployment is especially high among low-skilled and unskilled individuals and higher among migrants than among natives. This book contributes to the ongoing debate about the determinants of individual employment dynamics by analyzing transitions processes between employment, ...

Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. We jointly examine male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time duration models. Compared to natives, unemployed male migrant workers do ...

The German Employment Protection Act - How does it work in company practice?

The article describes the manner in which in companies make decisions about dismissals. It begins with the presentation of a number of theories, which attempt to depict the complexity of the employment relationship. This is followed by the presentation of the legal framework and the various options for action at the respective levels. The third section draws together empirical data that illuminates ...

How does subjective well-being evolve with age? A literature review

This literature review provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical research in several disciplines on the relation between ageing and subjective well-being, i.e., how subjective well-being evolves across the lifespan. Because of the different methodologies, data sets and samples used, comparison among disciplines and studies is difficult. However, extant studies do show either a U-shaped, ...

Foreigners and the Social Insurance System in Germany

Trends in active life expectancy in Germany between 1984 and 2003 - a cohort analysis with different health indicators

Can We Really (All) Work Longer? Trends in Healthy Life Expectancy According to Social Stratum in Germany

Against the background of raising the retirement age to 67 years and the associated lengthening of working lifetimes in higher age groups, this article examines the question of the extent to which this political objective is covered by the health assets of the population. Here, we will first trace trends in “healthy” life expectancy among the total population for different points in time 1989, 1999 ...

Poverty Statistics: Issues in Poverty Measurement. Planning and Design of Household Panel Surveys for Enhancing Poverty Statistics

The Impact of Young Children on Women’s Labour Supply: A Reassessment of Institutional Effects in Europe

The proportion of women who withdraw from paid employment when they have children differs considerably among the countries of the European Union (EU), and the variation has mostly been attributed to institutional factors. In this study, we reassess the institutional explanation, because earlier supportive evidence is threatened by two alternative macro-level explanations: the influence of the economic ...