Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Housing Decisions, Family Types and Gender: A Look across LIS Countries

In this paper we shall examine homeownership trends over the past 3 to 4 decades and discuss differences related to the homeownership gap for women and men, with a focus on most recent trends. We shall compare differences in the US to those in countries with different institutional structures and shall pay particular attention to differences across family types. Our estimation techniques will allow ...

Labor Income Risk and Consumption / Saving Behavior (Dissertation)

Dependent Self-Employment as a Way to Evade Employment Protection Legislation

This paper examines whether the strictness of employment protection legislation encourages employers to contract out work to their own paid employees by the formula of dependent self-employment, while making transitions to independent selfemployment less likely by altering the relative valuation of risk between salaried work and selfemployment in favour of the former. In conducting this analysis, discrete ...

Unemployment and Health: An Analysis by Means of Better Data and Improved Methodology (Dissertation)

Self-employment, Internal Migration and Place Embeddedness

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. Population geography has not researched this issue and entrepreneurship literature has given it little attention. This paper examines whether self-employed entrepreneurs are ‘rooted’ in place and also whether those who are more rooted in place are more likely to enter self-employment, thereby shedding new light ...

Testing the ‘Residential Rootedness’-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a ‘local event’, the literature argues that entrepreneurs are ‘rooted’ in place. This paper tests the ‘residential rootedness’ hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move over long distances (internal migration) than workers in paid employment. Using longitudinal data from the German ...

Long Maternal Leaves and The Gender Wage Gap (thesis)

This article examines the effect of long parental leave policies on the gender wage gap. I analyze the general equilibrium consequences of the introduction of generous job-protected parental leaves on female wages and female labor force composition. My evidence supports the hypothesis that generous child support for families can be costly for firms; and moreover, that these costs are passed on to women ...

Why Did Social Assistance Dependence Increase? - The Dynamics of Social Assistance Dependence and Unemployment in Germany

Dissimilation? The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants

Residential location and youth unemployment: The economic geography of school-to-work transitions