Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Who Benefits from a Job Change: The dwarfs or the giants?

In this paper, we use panel data from the UK and Germany to investigate the effect of employer changes and in-firm job changes on year-to-year wage mobility of male full-time workers. Following segmentation theories and the job search theory, we study whether this effect differs for the low- and high-wage workers. As wage growth is endogenous to the decision of changing jobs, a two-stage Heckman selection ...

Wage Mobility in Europe. A Comparative Analysis Using Restricted Multinomial Logit Regression

The paper investigates cross-country differences in wage mobility in Europe using the European Community Household Panel. We examine the impact of specific wage-setting institutions, such as the collective bargaining and the trade union density, the employment protection regulation and the welfare state regime on wage mobility. We apply a log-linear approach that is very much similar to a restricted ...

Risk attitudes and reservation wages of unemployed workers: Evidence from panel data

This paper studies risk attitudes of unemployed job seekers and their relationship to self-reported reservation wages. We find that risk aversion is prevalent, and that reservation wages decrease slightly over time. Furthermore, risk aversion and reservation wages are negatively correlated.

Unemployment, Labor Market Training Programs and Regional Wages: An Extended Wage Curve Approach

Labor market slack and the wage curve

´Phillips Curve´ or ´Wage Curve´ - Is there really a puzzle? Evidence for West Germany

Wage Dynamics and Unemployment in Germany: Evidence from Regional Panel Data

Performance-Related Pay and Earnings Dynamics in West Germany: A GEE-Type Approach to a Two-Equation Panel Data Model with Continous and Limited Dependent Variables

The changing shape of class-voting. An individual-level analysis of party support in Britain, Germany and Switzerland

Remodelling Class to Make Sense of Service Employment: Evidence for Britain and Germany

This paper presents a novel class schema that aims at responding to the analytical challenge of an increasingly tertiarized, skill-intensive and feminized employment structure. For this matter, the traditional vertical class criterion distinguishing between more or less advantageous employment relationships is complemented by a horizontal criterion. The horizontal criterion’s purpose is to separate ...