Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes: routine jobs have lost relative ...

Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?

This article examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social representations, norms, conventions, legislation and organizations). The observed institutional differences between the two countries lead to the hypotheses of (I) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; ...

The Dynamics of Task-Biased Technological Change :The Case of Occupations

This article uses detailed German household panel data to address important unresolved issuesrelated to task-biased technological change. Implementing a task-based model of occupationalemployment and earnings, results show that the task composition of occupations in 1985 issignificantly associated with relative employment changes and accounts at least partially for thejob polarisation that occurred ...

Performance Appraisals and Job Satisfaction

The research in this article is focused on formal performance appraisals (PA), one of the most important human resource management practices in firms. In detail, the study analyzes the effect of PAs on employees’ overall job satisfaction. We are able to differentiate between appraisals that are linked to monetary outcomes, such as bonus payments and promotions, and appraisals that have no monetary ...

Measuring the Use of Human Resources Practices and Employee Attitudes: The Linked Personnel Panel

This paper introduces a new data source available for HRM researchers and personnel economists,the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set covering establishments in Germany and designed for quantitative empirical HR research. The LPP offers a unique structure. First, the data set combines employer and employee surveys that can be matched ...

Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the effects of bonding (i.e., co-ethnic) and bridging (i.e., inter-ethnic) ties on economic outcomes. Results show that general social contacts have a positive effect on the occupational status and, in particular, ...

Relative to What? Cross-national Picture of European Poverty Measured by Regional, National and European Standards

Three Essays in Empirical Economics

Labor Market Status and Transitions During the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences

Mommies’ Girls Get Dresses, Daddies’ Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications

We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility and mothers’ labor market outcomes, we take advantage of the PHBS’ detailed expenditure module to examine effects of gender on consumption patterns. We find that ...