Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Service Sector Employment in Germany and the UK

Job opportunities for whom? Labour market dynamics and service-sector employment growth in Germany and Britain

What Drives Reciprocal Behavior? The Optimal Provision of Incentives over the Course of Careers

We explore how inherent preferences for reciprocity and repeated interaction interact in an optimal incentive system. Developing a theoretical model of a long-term employment relationship, we first show that reciprocal preferences are more important when an employee is close to retirement. At earlier stages, repeated interaction is more important because more future rents can be used to provide incentives. ...

Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education

EUROMOD - Distribution and decomposition of disposable income in the European Union

Employment in Europe 2003 - Recent Trends and Prospects (Chapter 3, 4 and 5)

Study on Poverty and Social Exclusion among Lone-parent Households

Statistical analysis on health-related longitudinal data from the ECHP

The predictive value of subjective labour supply data: A partial-adjustment model with measurement error

This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in working hours over time. The idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict working hours, the subjective data must contain at least some information on individual labour supply preferences. In this paper, I formulate a partial-adjustment model that allows for measurement error in the observed variables. ...

Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market: Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands