Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of In-Kind Subsidies - The Case of Day Care in Germany

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done. Moreover, there is little knowledge on the distributional effects of child care subsidies. In order to assess whether ...

Female Education and the Second Child: Great Britain and Western Germany Compared

Fertility Data for German-speaking Countries: What is the Potential? Where are the Pitfalls?

This paper provides an overview of fertility data for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Particular attention is given to the availability of order-specific fertility data. We discuss the quality of data provided by the Statistical Offices, both birth registration data and censuses or microcensuses. In addition, we explore how social science surveys can be used to generate order-specific fertility indicators, ...

Returns to Regional Migration: Causal Effect or Selection on Wage Growth?

At the interface of economy, geography and sociology the presentation deals with wage effects of geographic mobility. Investigating pecuniary returns to geographic mobility, researchers have to tackle the problem that migrants assess greater innate ability and motivation. Empirical studies show that migrants are favorably self-selected with respect to human capital characteristics. To get rid of potential ...

Social Inequality, Child Care Attendance and School Start in Germany

This study investigates how far attending child care institutions can reduce delayed school entries in Germany. The influence of child care institutions should be stronger when children attend them at younger ages, and it should vary according to the children's social origins. When parents' cultural resources are low, care institutions should have large additional positive effects on children's ...

Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs - The East German Experience

Modelling Heaping Effects in Unemployment Duration Models - With an Application to Retrospective Event Data in the German Socio-Economic Panel

Don´t Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment

Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness also a driver of behavior and life’s outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists between residual happiness and an unemployed individual’s future reemployment probability and the reentry wage. ...

Empirical Studies of Unemployment: Search Behavior, Reintegration and Prevention (Dissertation)

This dissertation studies the search behavior and future labor market outcomes of the unemployed as well as ways to prevent unemployment, and includes the following questions: How do reservation wages of the unemployed evolve over migrant generations? Do economic preferences play a role when analyzing the reemployment probability of unemployed natives and second generation migrants? Does subjective ...

Happiness and Work

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming unemployed, another field of study focuses on the determinants of job satisfaction evolving around employment conditions, ...