Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Dual Embeddedness: Informal Job Matching and Labor Market Institutions in the United States and Germany

Drawing on the embeddedness, varieties of capitalism and macrosociological life course perspectives, we examine how institutional arrangements affect network-based job finding behaviors in the United States and Germany. Analysis of cross-national survey data reveals that informal job matching is highly clustered among specific types of individuals and firms in the United States, whereas it is more ...

Search, Effort, and Locus of Control

We test the hypothesis that locus of control - one’s perception of control over events in life - influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory experiment. We find that reservation offers and effort are increasing in the belief that one’s efforts influence outcomes when subjects exert effort without knowing how effort influences the generation of offers but ...

Who benefits? A Comparison of Welfare and Outcomes for the Unemployed in Britain and Germany (Dissertation)

How do different welfare states respond to the challenge of unemployment? Comparing Britain and Germany in the 1990s, the main focus of this thesis is on how welfare policies affect outcomes for individuals unemployed persons. The interaction of the state, labour markets and household structures is considered crucial in understanding these outcomes. The selection of countries – Britain and Germany ...

Dealing with negative marginal utilities in the discrete choice modelling of labour supply

In discrete choice labor supply analysis, it is often reasonably expected that utility will increase with income. Yet, analyses based on discrete choice models sometimes mention that, when no restriction is imposed a priori in the optimization program, the monotonicity condition is not fully satisfied ex post. In order to overcome this limitation, some authors impose restrictions that may appear to ...

Lessons from Building and Using Euromod

Social Indicators and other Income Statistics using EUROMOD: an assessment of the 2001 baseline and changes 1998-2001

Marginal employment for welfare recipients: stepping stone or obstacle?

Marginal employment (ME) is one of the largest forms of atypical employment in Germany. We analyse whether ME has a ‘stepping stone’ function for unemployed individuals, i.e., whether ME increases the subsequent probability of regular employment. We find differing treatment effects by unemployment duration. According to our results, ME increases the likelihood of regular employment within a 3-year ...

Income Inequality and Education from ECHP Data

Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of fathers and sons could be nonlinear, especially at the tails of the distribution of earnings of fathers. When a ...

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