Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Children of single mums more likely to smoke

Pension Income Inequality: a Cohort Study in Six European Countries

This paper is an empirical overview of inequalities of pension outcomes in six European countries, which are shaped by a variety of institutional pensions schemes. The study contrasts pension system regulation in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom; and analyses their impact on current pension income. The main focus is analyzing the current trends of income distribution ...

Pension Institutions and Income Inequality across European Societies: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It is focused on the government’s and social partner’s efforts to provide old-age security benefits, and how these regulatory approaches have shaped the current structure of the public-private mix of pension protection systems. The different regulatory approaches may, in ...

Tax-Transfer Systems in Europe: Between Efficiency, Redistribution and Stabilization (Dissertation)

Earnings Responses to Social Security Contributions

This paper exploits discontinuities induced by earnings caps for social security contributions (SSC) in Germany to analyse the effect of SSC on gross labour earnings. Empirical evidence is based on two complementary approaches utilising two administrative data sets. First, employment responses to SSC at the intensive margin are identified by a modified bunching approach that is applied to kinks in ...

Labour Market Responses to Social Security Contributions and Social Benefits (dissertation)

This dissertation focuses on earnings responses to SSC and social benefits which amounted to on average 10.3% and 13.6 % of GDP, respectively, in the OECD countries in 2014. Their large magnitude makes it essential to understand and quantify their impact on labour market outcomes. The four chapters of this dissertation cover the two crucial channels of labour market reactions encompassed in earnings ...

Intra-urban polarization due to tertiarisation of the urban labiur market? Evidence from urban regions in Germany

Declining Teen Employment: Minimum Wages, Returns to Schooling, and Immigration

We explore the decline in teen employment in the United States since 2000, which was sharpest for 16–17 year-olds. We consider three main explanatory factors: a rising minimum wage that could reduce employment opportunities for teens and potentially increase the value of investing in schooling; rising returns to schooling; and increasing competition from immigrants that, like the minimum wage, could ...

The Micro-Foundations of Party Competition and Issue Ownership: The Reciprocal Effects of Citizens’ Issue Salience and Party Attachments

While previous research on the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue attitudes and their party support emphasize citizens’ issue positions, political competition revolves equally around issue salience, i.e., debates over which issue areas political parties should prioritize. Using multi-wave panel data from Germany and Great Britain, we analyze the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and ...

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 ...