Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Who Benefits from a Job Change: The dwarfs or the giants?

In this paper, we use panel data from the UK and Germany to investigate the effect of employer changes and in-firm job changes on year-to-year wage mobility of male full-time workers. Following segmentation theories and the job search theory, we study whether this effect differs for the low- and high-wage workers. As wage growth is endogenous to the decision of changing jobs, a two-stage Heckman selection ...

Wage Mobility in Europe. A Comparative Analysis Using Restricted Multinomial Logit Regression

The paper investigates cross-country differences in wage mobility in Europe using the European Community Household Panel. We examine the impact of specific wage-setting institutions, such as the collective bargaining and the trade union density, the employment protection regulation and the welfare state regime on wage mobility. We apply a log-linear approach that is very much similar to a restricted ...

Individual Labor Market Effects of Local Public Expenditures on Sports

By merging administrative data on public finances of all municipalities in Germany with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we explore whether local public expenditures on sports facilities influences individual labor market outcomes. Our identification strategy follows a selection-on-observables approach and exploits the panel structure of the data covering 12 years between 2001 ...

What is Unemployment in Europe? Concepts and Measurement in the ECHP

Happiness in Europe: Cross-Country Differences in the Determinants of Subjective Well-Being

The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the relationship between life satisfaction and income. The panel property of the data makes it possible to study also the impact on satisfaction ...

Life Events and Subjective Well-being: The Case of Having Children

The literature on Happiness and Subjective Well-Being (SWB) has been dominated by studies of the impact from income and labour market status - and the impact on happiness from changes in these determinants. It seems obvious to expect an impact from noneconomic factors as well. In the present paper we focus on the eventual impact on SWB from having children. The dominant result in the rather few studies ...

The Benefits of Linking CGE and Microsimulation Models: Evidence from a Flat Tax Analysis

The Benefits and Problems of Linking Micro and Macro Models - Evidence from a Flat Tax Analysis

Mircrosimulation (MS) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGE) have both been widely used in policy analysis. Their combination allows the utilisation of the advantages of both types. The aim of this paper is to describe the state-of-the-art in simulation analysis and to illustrate the benefits and problems of linking micro and macro models by analysing flat tax reform proposals for Germany. ...

The Development of Richness in Europe

In recent years, a branch of literature on the top of the (income) distribution emerged in Economics using top income shares as a measure of richness. This paper contributes to this literature by comparing different measures of richness (income shares, headcount, intensity measures). We analyse the development of various richness indices over time in Europe (and other OECDCountries) using micro data. ...

Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional ...