Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

You Live and Learn: Private-Sector Training in Germany

This paper analyzes the incidence, wage effects and employment effects of private-sector training in Germany. Using data from the SOEP, we concentrate on two periods: a) 1997–2000 and b) 2001–2004. Our results indicate a fairly similar pattern with regard to the incidence of private-sector training in Germany in both periods, while the picture which arises with respect to the effects of private-sector ...

Disability Retirement among German Men in the 1980s (Dissertation)

Disability retirement and unemployment - substitute pathways for labour force exit? An empirical test for the case of Germany

This paper studies the determinants of disability retirement and unemployment of older workers, two labour market phenomena which the German public discussion combines under the label of early retirement. The implicit assumption that these two mechanisms are exchangeable pathways into permanent retirement is tested. Using panel data the transition rates from employment into disability retirement and ...

Older Workers´ Responses to Health Shocks

Immigrant Participation in Social Assistance Programs

Immigrant Participation in the German Welfare Program

Disability Retirement among German Men in the 1980s

In Germany, a large proportion of new retirees-at times, more than half of them-have taken disability retirement. This study investigates the role of expected benefits in determining that choice. The author finds that among German men in 1984-91, age, health, and prior wages were much stronger predictors of the transition into disability retirement than were expected benefits. She concludes that a ...

Income and employment effects of health shocks - A test case for the german welfare state

Public preferences for alternative electricity mixes in post-Fukushima Japan

Using representative household survey data from Japan after the Fukushima accident, we estimate peoples' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuels in electricity generation. We rely on random parameter econometric techniques to capture various degrees of heterogeneity between the respondents, and use detailed regional information to assess how WTP varies with the distance ...

Cost Liability and Residential Space Heating Expenditures of Welfare Recipients in Germany