Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Improvements and Future Challenges for the Research Infrastructure in the Field of “Preschool Education”

Better LATE? Instrumental Variables Estimation of the Returns to Job Mobility during Transition

Older Babies - More Active Mothers? How Maternal Labor Supply Changes as the Child Grows

Female labor market activity is dependent on the presence and the age of a child, but how do the determinants develop in magnitude and significance with the child's age? Using German SOEP data from 1991 to 2006 for mothers with young children, the change in maternal labor supply when the child is one, two, and three years old is explicitly addressed. According to the tobit regression results for ...

Higher and Higher? Performance Pay and Wage Inequality in Germany

Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the growing use of performance pay schemes is related to the increase in wage inequality? German SOEP data for the years 1984 to 2009 confirm the large increase in the application of performance pay schemes. ...

Unemployment and social involvement: Dependencies and mechanisms. Findings from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) (Dissertation)

Dependencies and Mechanisms of Unemployment and Social Involvement: Findings from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

People’s involvement in social groups and networks constitutes a resource for societies and individuals. More specifically, involvement represents the basis upon which social integration takes place and provides access to material and non-material goods considered to be rewarding for individuals. Despite substantial research suggesting that unemployment triggers social exclusion and social isolation, ...

Measuring Time Use in Surveys – Concordance of survey and experience sampling measures

It is still unclear to what extent time allocation retrospectively reported in questionnaires reflects people’s actual behavior. Addressing this research gap, we analyze the congruence of time use information assessed through retrospective questionnaires and through experience sampling methodology. Participants completed standard survey questions on time allocation. In addition, a mobile-phone-based ...

Some Aspects of the Social Transition Processes in Hungary and East Germany - Income Inequality and Poverty

Religion and work: Micro evidence from contemporary Germany

Few theories in the social sciences have gained more widespread acceptance than Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism—despite a lack of conclusive empirical evidence. At the core of Weber’s theory lies a connection between Protestantism and attitudes toward work. Using micro-data from contemporary Germany, this paper investigates the impact of Protestantism on economic outcomes ...

Sector Surcharges for Temporary Agency Workers in Germany: A Way Out of the Low-Wage Sector?

Sector-specific surcharge collective labor agreements between the bargaining partner in the staffing industry allow for a reduction of wage gaps between agency workers and permanent staff in case of long-term job assignments to user companies. Stepwise surcharges up to 50% after a surcharge-free period between four and six weeks gradually close the wage gap for temporary agency workers in nine industries. ...