Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany

The Inter-Industry Wage Structure: Empirical Evidence for Germany and a Comparison With the U.S. and Sweden

Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany

Überstunden sind ein klassisches Instrument zur Steuerung und Veränderung der Arbeitszeit und haben als interne Flexibilitätsmaßnahme von Betrieben eine hohe Bedeutung in Deutschland. Von einer Variation des Arbeitseinsatzes durch Überstunden sind jedoch nicht alle Beschäftigten in gleichem Maße betroffen. Neben sozio-demographischen Faktoren spielen arbeitsplatzspezifische Merkmale eine wichtige Rolle, ...

A Comparison of the Burden of Out‐of‐Pocket Health Payments in Denmark, Germany and Poland

It is important to monitor equity of access to health services in all countries. We assessed the levels of out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending in three European countries: Denmark, Germany and Poland. Using data from national databases (i.e., Statistics Denmark, German Socio-Economic Panel, and National Statistical Office of Poland) for the period 2000–2010, we applied common methods to assess the ...

Earnings Growth for Guest Workers and West Germans - Cross-Section and Panel Estimates

Child Care Costs and Mothers' Labor Supply: An Empirical Analysis for Germany

The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

An Evaluation of Recent Child Care Reforms in Germany

Evaluating Family Policy Reforms Using Behavioral Microsimulation - The Example of Childcare and Income Tax Reforms in Germany (Dissertation)

Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market (substantially revised version)

This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a discrete choice panel data model ...