Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Promotion of Part-Time Work through Legal Entitlement - Help or Hindrance for Employment Growth?

Rise in Occupational Mobility Especially Amongst Women and Young People

Labour Market Attachment of People outside the Labour Force - An Explorative Analysis of Hidden Labor Force in Europe

The Transition Into Work - Specialities for the Hidden Labour Force in Comparison to other Economically Inactive Persons

The paper presents a multivariate approach on transitions into work for five non working groups including the unemployed, the Attached, people in education, people doing housework and others. The study is based on ECHP data from 1994 to 1998. It is expected that individuals in the Attached group have significantly higher transition probabilities into work than others outside the labour force although ...

High Satisfaction Among Mothers Who Work Part-time

Eastern Germany Ahead in Employment of Women

Almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall, there are still more women in employment in eastern Germany than in the west. Admittedly, the difference is marginal now but the two regions started from dramatically different levels. Immediately after reunification (1991), the employment rate for women in western Germany was 54.6 percent but since then, this has increased year on year, reaching ...

Women Still Greatly Underrepresented on the Top Boards of Large Companies

Executive and supervisory boards of large companies in Germany are still dominated by men - to an extraordinary degree. Only 2.5% of all executive board members in the200 largest companies (not including the financial sector) are women, and only 10% of all seats on supervisory boards are occupied by women. The situation in the financial sector is similar: in the 100 largest banks, 2.6% of all executive ...

Female Labor Supply and Taxes in the Federal Republic of Germany

Offshoring and labor income risk: an empirical investigation

This paper analyzes how increased offshoring affects labor income risk. Dealing with the variability of incomes, it is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on income in the labor market. It provides an assessment that directly connects labor income risk and offshoring trends in a panel setting at the industry level using German data. Importantly, ...

Vulnerability to poverty revisited: Flexible modeling and better predictive performance

This paper analyzes several modifications to improve a simple measure of vulnerability as expected poverty. Firstly, in order to model income, we apply distributional regression relating potentially each parameter of the conditional income distribution to the covariates. Secondly, we determine the vulnerability cutoff endogenously instead of defining a household as vulnerable if its probability of ...