Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Viewpoint: Replication in Economics

Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch

Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives

Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, economic research on employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) is still in its infancy. The empirical study by Oyer (Res Labor Econ 28:429–467, 2008) is one of few exceptions focusing empirically on the dispersion of tangible incentives. In our study, we test some of his findings by drawing on a German data set. We ...

What Makes Single Mothers Expand or Reduce Employment?

To explore single mothers’ labor market participation we analyzed specific circumstances and dynamics in their life courses. We focused on the question which individual and institutional factors determine both professional advancement and professional descent. The German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2010) provides all necessary information identifying episodes of single motherhood and analyzing restrictions ...

The German Socio-Economic Panel

The First Six Waves of SOEP - The Panel Project in the Years 1983 to 1989

The Employment of Mothers – Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences in the developments for high and low skilled females. We find substantial differences in the employment behavior ...

Poverty and social policy in unified Germany

Labour market related poverty in Germany

Does self-employment really raise job satisfaction? Adaptation and anticipation effects on self-employment and general job changes

Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for the self-employed than for employees. We argue that by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects estimates in previous studies might be misleading. To test this, we specify models accounting for anticipation and adaptation to self-employment and general job changes. In contrast to ...