Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution, Work Incentives and Household Welfare?

Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Means-tested student aid might affect enrollment in higher education. To derive the potential influence of student aid, we use a tax-benefit microsimulation model. The effect is a nonlinear function of parental income, with variation as a result of bracket creeping and various reforms. Therefore, the effect of student aid on enrollment can be separated from the effects of income and other family characteristics. ...

Documentation of the Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model STSM

Documentation of the Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model STSM

Cross-National Trends in Income Poverty and Dependency: The Evidence for Young Adults in the Eighties

Poverty and Income Maintenance in Old Age: A Cross-National View of Low Income Older Women

Going to Extremes: An International Perspective on the Economic Status of the United States Aged

Unemployment persistence in the West German labour market: negative duration dependence or sorting?

The paper tests for negative duration dependence in West German unemployment in the presence of unobserved population heterogeneity. The analysis is based of a microeconometric model estimated on the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the period 1983 to 1995. I find that, after controlling for observed and unobserved population heterogeneity, individual re-employment probabilities are constant or ...

The labor market for older workers in Germany

The paper describes labor market developments for older workers in Germany in recent years. It provides a a summary of the main changes in labor market and pension policies in Germany which might have contributed to these developments. The main part of the paper offers, on the basis of micro data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), empirical evidence on changes in employment and long-term unemployment, ...

Ökosteuer hat zu geringerer Umweltbelastung des Verkehrs beigetragen

Allein durch die ökologische Steuerreform sind die Preise für Benzin und Diesel zwischen 1998 und 2003 in Deutschland in mehreren Schritten um über 20 Prozent gestiegen. Der Großteil des aus der Erhöhung der Energiesteuersätze resultierenden Aufkommens wurde zur Stabilisierung der Rentenversicherungsbeiträge verwendet. Hat die Ökosteuer neben diesem fiskalischen Ziel auch einen Beitrag zur nachhaltigen ...