Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Legacies of the past: social origin, educational attainment and labour-market outcomes in Germany

This chapter studies the associations among social origin, educational attainment and labour-market outcomes in Germany for cohorts born between 1947 and 1984. Our analysis adds to a large body of studies on social mobility in Germany (e.g. Breen and Luijkx 2007; Grätz 2011; Ishida et al. 1995; Mayer and Aisenbrey 2007; Müller and Pollak 2004). Apart from including data on cohorts younger than those ...

International multidimensional comparisons of inequality in disposable income and access to public goods

Intergenerational Mobility in the US and Abroad: Quantile and Mean Regression Measures (Dissertation)

Intergenerational mobility for whom? The experience of high- and low-earning sons in international perspective

Lifecycle bias in estimates of intergenerational earnings persistence

Demanding Work. The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy

Functional Form and Heterogeneity in Models for Count Data

Exploring Shorrocks Mobility Indices Using European Data

Starting from the approach proposed by Schluter and Trede (2003) we develop a continuous and alternative measure of mobility which first, allows to identify mobility over different parts of the earnings distribution and second, to distinguish between mobility that tends to reduce or increase the level of permanent inequality. This paper focuses on four European countries, Denmark, Germany, Spain and ...

New patterns of class persistence for young people? (Dissertation)

The dissertation project looks at the development of intergenerational class mobility in young age cohorts in Germany over the last two decades. Differences between women and men are analyzed employing both descriptive measures as well as statistical estimation techniques (logistic regression). The study uses the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). Next to class specific obstacles to social mobility ...

Gender and economic inequality