Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

What can we learn from intentions data about future behavior - the case of East-Germany after reunification

Spatial structure counts: the relevance of regional labour-market conditions for educational transitions to vocational training

Regional contextual factors can have a crucial impact on educational attainment processes of young adults and subsequently on individual life chances. This paper develops a systematic approach of the spatial references of such contextual settings. The flexible concept allows combining aggregate data for configurations of regional units in order to empirically determine the spatial extension of relevant ...

Flexible Modelling of Duration of Unemployment Using Functional Hazard Models and Penalized Splines: A Case Study Comparing Germany and the UK

The intention of this paper is to demonstrate the flexibility and capacity of penalized spline smoothing as estimation routine for modelling duration time data. We investigate the unemployment behaviour in Germany and the UK between 1995 and 2005 based on data from national panel studies. Functional duration time models are used to investigate the dynamics of covariate effects. The focus of our analysis ...

Estimating discrimination: A new approach

Moral Hazard and Liquidity Effects of Unemployment Benefits - Evidence from Germany (Thesis)

The effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations is a long-studied topic in public finance. Most papers follow a reduced-form approach and show that higher benefits lead to longer unemployment durations. Few papers, however, make use of the estimated parameters to learn something about the trade-off between the intended and unintended effects of providing unemployment benefits. The conventional ...

Entry into Marriage and the Transition to Adulthood Among Recent Birth Cohorts of Young Adults in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany

The Potential for Comparative Panel Research Using Data from the U.S. Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Discrete Time Models of Entry into Marriage Based on Retrospective Marital Histories of Young Adults in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany

This paper identifies and quantifies the social processes that account for the well-known relationship between chronological age and entry into marriage. Patterns of entry into marriage, broken down by sex, year of birth and level of schooling, are used to estimate year to year fluctuations in the available pool of marriage partners. Age-related variation in entry into marriage is then considered in ...

Labor Force Integration and Marital Choice in the United States and Germany (Dissertation)

Labor Force Integration and Marital Timing: An Analysis of Couples in the United States and Germany

Given the collective nature of marital decisionmaking and the vast changes infernale labor force participation in recent years, it may be misleading to view marital timing in terms of individual labor force integration. To do so, is to stress the effects of a set of factors on some individuals, while ignoring the impact of these very same processes on the formation of the occupational identity of the ...