Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Nonparametric estimation of discrete hazard functions

Does Age Exacerbate the Gender-Wage Gap? New Method and Evidence From Germany, 1984–2014

Given theoretical premises, the gender-wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary according to age. This study adapts John DiNardo, Nicole M. Fortin, and Thomas Lemieux's (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort, and age effects in adjusted gender-wage gaps. The study relies on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) covering ...

Economic Trends of Elderly Households

To Go or Not to Go? - Emigration from Germany

Zooming in on Life Events: Is Hedonic Adaptation Sensitive to the Temporal Distance from the Event?

This paper analyzed the effect of major positive and negative life events (marriage, divorce, birth of child, widowhood, and unemployment) on life satisfaction. For the first time, this study estimated the effects of life events not with a precision of 12 months but of 3 months. Specifically, two questions were addressed: (1) Does the precision of the temporal localization of the event (i.e., 12 or ...

From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again? A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics

Transitions on the Labor Market: Unemployment, Transfer Receipt and the Low-Wage-Sector (Dissertation)

Reducing the high unemployment rate is one of the most important and challenging issues facing the German society. The risk of unemployment is especially high among low-skilled and unskilled individuals and higher among migrants than among natives. This book contributes to the ongoing debate about the determinants of individual employment dynamics by analyzing transitions processes between employment, ...

Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. We jointly examine male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time duration models. Compared to natives, unemployed male migrant workers do ...

The German Employment Protection Act - How does it work in company practice?

The article describes the manner in which in companies make decisions about dismissals. It begins with the presentation of a number of theories, which attempt to depict the complexity of the employment relationship. This is followed by the presentation of the legal framework and the various options for action at the respective levels. The third section draws together empirical data that illuminates ...

How does subjective well-being evolve with age? A literature review

This literature review provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical research in several disciplines on the relation between ageing and subjective well-being, i.e., how subjective well-being evolves across the lifespan. Because of the different methodologies, data sets and samples used, comparison among disciplines and studies is difficult. However, extant studies do show either a U-shaped, ...