Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Development of Wages in Germany in the 1990s - Descriptions and Explanations

Earnings inequality in Germany: A decomposition-analysis

Several studies have shown that income inequality has risen in Germany until 2005. Less focus was put on the rise of earnings inequality which continued to rise until 2010. We distinguish different groups in the labour market with respect to working-time, gender and region by exploiting data from the German Socio-Economic panel (SOEP) for the years 1995 till 2014. Using the decomposition of the Theil1-index ...

The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that artistic work might result in exceptionally high job satisfaction, a conjecture that has been mentioned at various ...

Long-Term Unemployment during the Transition to a Market Economy: Eastern Germany after Unification

Extended Benefit-Entitlement Periods and the Duration of Unemployment in West Germany

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long–term unemployment since the early 1980's. In contrast, long–term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems. The German system is characterized ...

Data in the Domain of School Education - Secondary School: Present Situation, New Developments and Future Requirements

Data in the Domain of Secondary School Education

Research on school education is exceptionally active at present. This heightened level of activity is partly due to the realization that, compared to other countries, Germany knows very little about its school system. Before the results from the first cycle of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) were published at the end of 2001, for example, even the proportion of immigrant students ...

Old Age Poverty in Selected Countries of the European Union - Are Women Disproportionally Affected?

Key indicator Gender Pay Gap in unadjusted form (Germany, 2003)

The Survival of Self-Employed in West Germany: Evidence from Panel Data (Diplomarbeit)