Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Inter-ethnic Partnerships: Key Characteristics, And What They Reveal About Successful Integration

Partnerships between immigrants and native-born citizens are commonly viewed as the product of successful social integration, as well as a possible driving force of economic success. Thus, immigrants living in inter-ethnic partnerships have on average a higher level of education, better occupational status, and higher income than those living in intra-ethnic relationships. Data from the German Socio-Economic ...

Couple’s Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage

In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized – in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday – than those between immigrants is tested. The empirical analysis relies on panel data using a two-limit random effects tobit framework to identify determinants of a gender-neutral specialization index. Results indicate that for immigrants ...

Relative labor supply in intermarriage

Spouse’s relative labor supply and the degree of specialization in intermarriage might differ from that in immigrant and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages resulting from positive assortative mating by education, and due to different bargaining positions within the household. The empirical analysis relies on panel data ...

Do Political Efficacy and Socio-Political Culture Transmit Through History? Evidence on the Prussian Legacy

Since about two decades, a growing strand of literature seeks to delve deep into the topic of historical institutional frameworks to gain insight into the origins of peoples' norms and perceptions as well as contemporary economic developments. In this vein, this study presents new evidence for a Prussian legacy in terms of a persistently lower level of political efficacy and a socio-political ...

Considering the Extremely Poor: Multidimensional Poverty Measurement for Germany

This paper applies the Alkire and Foster (J Public Econ 95:476–487, 2011) index of multidimensional poverty to German data. This is done with respect to the politically most important dimensions of poverty mentioned in the German Federal Government’s report on poverty and wealth. Additionally, a modification of the identification step of the Alkire–Foster index is proposed to guarantee that individuals, ...

The Implications of Cultural Background on Labour Market Choices: The Case of Religion and Entrepreneurship

We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the diverse minority status of both confessions across European regions. Our quasi-experimental research design ...

Risk Selection in the German Public Health Insurance System

No more nine-to-five

Measuring the Cost of Unemployment

Hilda Survey in 2007