Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Importance of Peer Relatedness at School for Affective Well-Being in Children: Between- and Within-Person Associations

Abstract Two intensive longitudinal studies examining the association between children's feeling of relatedness to peers at school and their affective well-being were performed. In Study 1, 110 third and fourth graders reported on their positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) 4 times daily and on their peer relatedness once a day over 4 weeks. Multilevel analyses revealed that children who ...

Trade Unions and Minimum Wages (Dissertation)

Country-of-Origin Differences in the Earnings of German Immigrants

The Earnings Dynamics of Immigrant Labor

The Country of Origin, Family Structure and Return Migration of Germany's Guest-Workers

Relative Wage Effects of German Unions

The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem - Empirical Evidence on German Labor Market Flows

Reservation Wages, Wage Offer Distribution and Accepted Wages

Understanding Trust

The World Values Survey (WVS) question on trust has been widely used to study the economic effect of trust. Recent work, however, questions its validity as an accurate measure of trust by showing that it is not correlated with the sender's behaviour in the Berg et al. trust game. What measure then should we trust to measure trust? In this article, we argue that the sender's behaviour in a ...