Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Essays on Inequality: Income Distribution, (Just) Taxation and Well-being

This dissertation focuses on three dimensions of inequality: income, (just) taxation, and well-being. All chapters focus on a similar time horizon (2000 to 2015) and essentially on the same geographical area, Germany. The chapters are organized in four parts, each examining a specific research question and based on evidence from microdata - the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The analysis of chapter ...

Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children: Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants

We document the educational integration of immigrant children in France and Germany with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher education track attendance ...

Lifestyles - a relevant segmentation tool for the analysis of the socio-residential organisation?

Do welfare and labour market institutions influence unemployment duration of immigrants? Evidence from 11 European countries

This paper investigates the effect of institutions on the unemployment gap between immigrants and natives in 11 EU-countries. We study whether benefits provide disincentive effects as the job-search theory suggests or rather efficiency gains as alternative theories propose. Further than the existing literature, we study unemployment duration instead of unemployment incidence, we distinguish between ...

Using the Dirichlet Process to Form Clusters of People’s Concerns in the Context of Future Party Identification

Connections between interindividual differences and people’s behavior has been widely researched in various contexts, often by using top-down group comparisons to explain interindividual differences. In contrast, in this study, we apply a bottom-up approach in which we identify meaningful clusters in people’s concerns about various areas of life (e.g., their own health, their financial situation, the ...

Health Inequalities at Different Stages of the Lifecycle (Dissertation)

This thesis comprises three independent but closely related empirical studies dealing with different aspects of health inequalities at different stages of the life cycle. First, the thesis focuses on children aged 9-12 and explores whether maternal employment is related to the probability of being overweight among these children. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the results indicate that children ...

Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe

Fertitlity and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modelling Assumptions

Die Bereitschaft zur Weiterbeschäftigung im Ruhestandsalter im Zusammenhang mit sozioökonomischen Merkmalen

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob und inwiefern Informationen über den sozioökonomischen Status – gemessen an der beruflichen Stellung und dem verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen – zuverlässige Aussagen über die Bereitschaft, im Ruhestandsalter weiter zu arbeiten, treffen können. Kontrolliert werden diese Betrachtungen mit weiteren beruflichen und individuellen Merkmalen. Datengrundlage ist ...

The Impact of Socioeconomic Characteristics on Older Employees’ Willingness to Continue Working in Retirement Age

This article explores whether and to what degree information on the socioeconomic status – measured by professional status and disposable household income – allows making reliable statements on the willingness to remain in work in retirement age. These observations are controlled for professional and individual characteristics. The data basis is constituted by the study entitled “Continuing in employment ...