Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Extent and Determinants of Panel Attrition in the European Household Panel

Analysing Wage Differences Between the USA and Germany Using Proportional Hazards Models

Downward Wage Rigidity in Europe: A New Flexible Parametric Approach and Empirical Results

We suggest a new parametric approach to estimate the extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in ten European countries between 1995 and 2001. The database used throughout is the User Data Base of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The proposed approach is based on the generalized hyperbolic distribution, which allows to model wage change distributions characterized by thick tales, skewness ...

What determines wage differentials across the EU?

We analyse determinants of the wage differentials observed between thirteen European countries using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The empirical decomposition is based on a proportional hazards model. The approach based on rank invariant estimators is borrowed from the literature on failure time data and has been adapted by Donald et al. (Rev Econ Stud 67:609–633, 2000) to analyse ...

Cross-sectional vs. Longitudinal Views: Econometric Models of Low Income and Low Income Dynamics in Germany (unveröff. Habil.)

The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Who are the chronic poor? An economic analysis of chronic poverty in Germany

Measuring state dependence in individual poverty histories when there is feedback to employment status and household composition

This paper argues that the assumption of strict exogeneity, which is usually invoked in estimating models of state dependence with unobserved heterogeneity, is violated in the poverty context as important variables determining contemporaneous poverty status, in particular employment status and household composition, are likely to be influenced by past poverty outcomes. Therefore, a model of state dependence ...

Additive Decompositions with Interaction Effects

This paper proposes a comprehensive, path-independent decomposition formula of changes into ceteris paribus effects and interaction effects. The formula implies a reassessment of sequential decomposition methods that are widely used in the literature and that are restrictive in how they treat interaction effects. If counterfactual outcomes are correctly specified, it may also be viewed as a description ...

A general decomposition formula with interaction effects

This note presents a general way to decompose differences over time or between objects into the ceteris paribus effects and the interaction effects of an arbitrary number of factors. The decomposition addresses the issue of interaction effects between factors which have been neglected in the decomposition literature. It has the additional advantage of being path-independent and aggregation consistent. ...