Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Inequality in Human Development: An Empirical Assessment of 32 Countries

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simply approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows a comparison of the level in human development of the poor with the level of the non-poor within countries, but also ...

Saving Behavior and Housing Wealth Evidence from German Micro Data

Housing property is the most important position in a household’s wealth portfolio. Even though there is strong evidence that house price cycles and saving patterns behave synchronously, the underlying causes remain controversial. The present paper examines if there is a wealth effect of house prices on savings using household-level panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2012. ...

Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

Two prominent features of international labor movements are that the more educated are more likely to emigrate (positive selection) and more educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill (positive sorting). Using data on emigrant stocks by schooling level and source country in OECD destinations, we find that a simple model of income maximization can ...

Increasing Persistent Poverty in Germany

Persistent poverty is increasing in Germany

Report on compiled information

Experiences from ECHP Conversions

Human resources for health: An international comparison of health occupations from labour force survey data

Economic Inequality and Housework

Separate taxation and married women's labor supply. A comparison of West Germany and Sweden