Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Essays in Empirical Public Economics

This Dissertation is devoted to the empirical analysis of the consequences of government action. In particular, it investigates the distributional impact of fundamental tax reform and the welfare cost of bequest taxation. Further chapters assess the sustainability of public budgets in light of demographic change and the productivity impact of air pollution.

The Labour Supply of Lone Mothers in the Federal Republic of Germany

The Labour Supply of German Single Mothers: A Bivariate Probit Model

Job Related Valies, Motivation and Stress: Psychosomatic Inpatients Compared to a Population-Based Representative Sample

Convergence or divergence? Educational discrepancies in work-care arrangements of mothers with young children in Germany

This study examines how educational differences in work-care patterns among mothers with young children in Germany changed between 1997 and 2013. Since the mid-2000s, Germany has undergone a paradigm shift in parental leave and childcare policies. Our comparative analysis of East and West Germany provides new evidence on whether the long-standing gender regime differences interact with recent developments ...

Parental socio-economic status and childcare quality: Early inequalities in educational opportunity?

This study examines whether children from potentially disadvantaged families attend early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers of lower quality compared to more advantaged children in the universal and strongly state-subsidized ECEC system in Germany. We combine the representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with the 2014 K2ID-SOEP extension study on ECEC quality. We run linear and logistic ...

Housing Patterns and Mobility of the Aged: The United States and W.-Germany

Household Taxation, Income Splitting and Labor Supply Incentives - A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Work Incentives and Labor Supply Effects of the 'Mini-Jobs Reform' in Germany

Minijob-reform: No Effect on Unemployment, Losses in Income Tax and Social Security Contributions

The so-called 'Minijob-reform', that was introduced in April 2003 as part of the 'Hartz II'-reform, was intended to increase work incentives for people with low wages and thereby reduce structural unemployment. Therefore, the hours restriction of 15 hours per week was abolished and the threshold up to which earnings remain free of social security contributions (SSC) was increased. ...