Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Does Separation Really Lead Fathers and Mothers to be Less Involved in their Children’s Lives?

Parental separation is a disadvantageous life event with many consequences for the children who experience it. This article investigates the influence of parental separation on father and mother involvement in their children’s lives in adolescence using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and employing family fixed-effects models to control for omitted variable bias. The results ...

Competition in the Family: Inequality between Siblings and the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Advantage

Research on educational mobility is concerned with inequalities between families. Differences in innate abilities and parental responses lead, however, to educational differences between siblings. If parental responses vary by family socioeconomic background, within-family inequality can affect between-family inequality (i.e., educational mobility). This study uses data from the German Socio-Economic ...

Legacies of the past: social origin, educational attainment and labour-market outcomes in Germany

This chapter studies the associations among social origin, educational attainment and labour-market outcomes in Germany for cohorts born between 1947 and 1984. Our analysis adds to a large body of studies on social mobility in Germany (e.g. Breen and Luijkx 2007; Grätz 2011; Ishida et al. 1995; Mayer and Aisenbrey 2007; Müller and Pollak 2004). Apart from including data on cohorts younger than those ...

International multidimensional comparisons of inequality in disposable income and access to public goods

Intergenerational Mobility in the US and Abroad: Quantile and Mean Regression Measures (Dissertation)

Intergenerational mobility for whom? The experience of high- and low-earning sons in international perspective

Lifecycle bias in estimates of intergenerational earnings persistence

Demanding Work. The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy

Functional Form and Heterogeneity in Models for Count Data

Exploring Shorrocks Mobility Indices Using European Data

Starting from the approach proposed by Schluter and Trede (2003) we develop a continuous and alternative measure of mobility which first, allows to identify mobility over different parts of the earnings distribution and second, to distinguish between mobility that tends to reduce or increase the level of permanent inequality. This paper focuses on four European countries, Denmark, Germany, Spain and ...