Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Estimating discrimination: A new approach

Moral Hazard and Liquidity Effects of Unemployment Benefits - Evidence from Germany (Thesis)

The effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations is a long-studied topic in public finance. Most papers follow a reduced-form approach and show that higher benefits lead to longer unemployment durations. Few papers, however, make use of the estimated parameters to learn something about the trade-off between the intended and unintended effects of providing unemployment benefits. The conventional ...

Entry into Marriage and the Transition to Adulthood Among Recent Birth Cohorts of Young Adults in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany

The Potential for Comparative Panel Research Using Data from the U.S. Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Discrete Time Models of Entry into Marriage Based on Retrospective Marital Histories of Young Adults in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany

This paper identifies and quantifies the social processes that account for the well-known relationship between chronological age and entry into marriage. Patterns of entry into marriage, broken down by sex, year of birth and level of schooling, are used to estimate year to year fluctuations in the available pool of marriage partners. Age-related variation in entry into marriage is then considered in ...

Labor Force Integration and Marital Choice in the United States and Germany (Dissertation)

Labor Force Integration and Marital Timing: An Analysis of Couples in the United States and Germany

Given the collective nature of marital decisionmaking and the vast changes infernale labor force participation in recent years, it may be misleading to view marital timing in terms of individual labor force integration. To do so, is to stress the effects of a set of factors on some individuals, while ignoring the impact of these very same processes on the formation of the occupational identity of the ...

Youth Employment in the United States and Germany - The Mechanics of Restructuring

Toward a Longitudinal, Multi-Dimensional Class Model

A longitudinal analytical framework, one that sees class as a process over time and not a fixed attribute, is proposed as a means to redirect class analysis and revive a theoretical debate that has gone stale. Class analysis implies an inherently dynamic perspective. However, quantitative studies of class that go beyond static analyses of cross-sections are rare. Three dimensions of class may be identified ...

Vocational Training and Job Quality: Career Attainment in the German Labor Market