Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the occupational task profile using rich individual-level panel data. Our main results suggest that, when only considering within-industry changes in offshoring, we identify a moderate wage reduction due to offshoring for low-skilled workers, though wage effects in relation to the task profile of occupations are not estimated with ...

Are There Any Class Size Effects on Early Career Earnings in West Germany

Empirical Evaluation of Selected Labour Market and Education Policies (Dissertation)

Enrolment into Higher Education and Changes in Repayment Obligations of Student Aid - Microeconometric Evidence for Germany -

Student Aid, Repayment Obligations and Enrolment in Higher Education in Germany - Evidence from a "Natural Experiment"

Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? - Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Trends in Intragenerational Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the United States (1984-2006)

Using the Shorrocks R, we compare trends in intragenerational income mobility for the western states of Germany and the United States (1984 – 2006) and test the sensitivity of our results to the starting point and number of years considered. We find that our mobility estimates do not converge to a constant over time so the starting year chosen for the analysis matters. We conclude that income mobility ...

Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the period measured. We argue that a great social transformation - German reunification - abruptly and permanently altered economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over the entire period 1984-2006, we find the ...

The Effects of Union Dissolution on the Economic Resources of Men and Women: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States, 1985–2013

We analyze the consequences of union dissolution on the economic resources of men and women in the United States and Germany over three decades, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and another international survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel, which was modeled after the PSID. Measured either by family size–adjusted “pregovernment” or “postgovernment” incomes (incomes to men and women ...

Intragenerational mobility and the ratio of permanent to total inequality

This article provides finite sample conditions for the ratio of permanent to total inequality based on methods of Gottschalk and Moffitt (1994) to be equivalent to the Shorrocks R constructed with a Theil General Entropy Index. A simple test emerges of whether the two measures can be seen as equivalent that reveals the implicit social weighting placed on different parts of the income distribution by ...