Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

What is Behind Native-Immigrant Social Income Gaps?

Sampling Errors and Cross-Country Comparisons of Income Inequality

Measuring Income Mobility over Equivalent Adults

Universalism and Targeting: An International Comparison Using the LIS Database

Representative evidence on lying costs

A central assumption in economics is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Several recent models depart from this assumption and posit that some people do not lie or at least do not lie maximally. These models invoke many different underlying motives including intrinsic lying costs, altruism, efficiency concerns, or conditional cooperation. To provide ...

Country differences in the relationship between incomes and wage rates of working partners

This paper investigates the relevance of the cultural and economic country context for differences in the effect of male partner in come on female income and wage rate for 9,373 respondents in 13 European countries. Data taken from the European Community and Household Panel (ECHP), which comprises information on partner income trends between 1994 and 2001, were used to estimate fixed effect models. ...

Earnings Inequality in Germany

Cross-country inequality trends

Why do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Beyond Becker - Training in Imperfect Labour Markets