Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration. Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants

Parental impact on attitude formation: A siblings study on worries about immigration

The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable home education on attitude formation. Yet, factors such as parents’ knowledge, their morals, and their weltanschauung are likely to influence the attitudes of the next generation.Their omission from the analysis thus threatens to lead to erroneous conclusions. Utilizing siblings data ...

Life-cycle variations in the association between current and lifetime earnings: Evidence for German natives and guest workers

In many economic models a central variable of interest is lifetime or permanent income which is not observed in survey data sets and typically proxied by annual income information. To assess the quality of such approximations, we use a unique source of lifetime earnings — the German pension system — and focus on two important issues that have been largely ignored in the existing literature. The first ...

Management Quality, Firm Size, and Managerial Compensation: A Comparison between Germany and the UK

Sport for all in aging societies - Findings from Germany

Cohort effects in physical inactivity. A neglected category and its health economical implications

Demographic and economic factors influencing inclusion in the German sport system - a microanalysis of the years 1985 to 2005

Revenue and Distributional Effects of the Current Tax Reform Proposals in Germany - An Evaluation by Microsimulation

Implications of an Aging Population: A Comparative Analysis of West Germany an the United States

Aging in Germany and the United States: International Comparisons