Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany

This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to differences between temporary and permanent migrants.Our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between foreign-born and German-born individuals. These differences disappear, however, for temporary migrants, if their remittances are taken into account. The results ...

The Purpose of Remittances. Evidence from Germany

This paper examines the purpose of remittances using individual data of migrants in Germany. Particular attention is paid to migrants' savings and transfers to family members in the home country. Our findings indicate that migrants who intend to stay in Germany only temporarily have a higher propensity to save and save larger amounts in their home country than permanent migrants. A similar picture ...

Modelling International Migration: Economic and Econometric Issues

Network Migration of Ethnic Germans

Unemployment and Wages of Ethnic Germans

Occupational Mobility of Ethnic Migrants

Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany

The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision affects the equilibrium. Due to ...

Formal Child Care and Family Structure: Theory and Evidence

This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium, the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision affects the equilibrium. Due ...

Culture, Spatial Diffusion of Ideas and their Long-Lasting Imprints – Evidence from Froebel’s Kindergarten Movement

We document the spatial diffusion of Friedrich Froebel’s radical invention of kindergartens in 19th-century Germany. The first kindergarten was founded at Froebel’s birthplace. Early spatial diffusion can be explained by cultural proximity, measured by historical dialect similarity, to Froebel’s birthplace. This result is robust to the inclusion of higher order polynomials in geographic distance and ...