Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Marry one to be one: the effects of assimilation on immigrants' wages

Successful assimilation of immigrants into their host country improves immigrants' labor market outcomes and consequently benefits the host country. I use marriage between an immigrant man and a German woman (intermarriage) as a measure of assimilation. Married immigrant men might benefit even more from intermarriage than either single men or those married to other immigrants through legal benefits, ...

Health and Inequality

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is difficult to gauge the magnitude of the ...

Modelling the Redistributive Impact of Indirect Taxes in Europe: An Application of EUROMOD

Earnings Inequality: Changes in the 1980s (Chapter 5)

Earnings inequality, low-paid employment and earnings mobility (Chapter 3)

Earnings mobility - taking a longer run view (Chapter 2)

Poverty Dynamics over Longer Periods (Chapter 2, No. III)

Education at a Glance 2002 (Chapter A, Indicator A13)

The ins and outs of long-term unemployment (Chapter 4)

Women at work: who are they and how are they faring? (Chapter 2)