Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Do welfare and labour market institutions influence unemployment duration of immigrants? Evidence from 11 European countries

This paper investigates the effect of institutions on the unemployment gap between immigrants and natives in 11 EU-countries. We study whether benefits provide disincentive effects as the job-search theory suggests or rather efficiency gains as alternative theories propose. Further than the existing literature, we study unemployment duration instead of unemployment incidence, we distinguish between ...

Using the Dirichlet Process to Form Clusters of People’s Concerns in the Context of Future Party Identification

Connections between interindividual differences and people’s behavior has been widely researched in various contexts, often by using top-down group comparisons to explain interindividual differences. In contrast, in this study, we apply a bottom-up approach in which we identify meaningful clusters in people’s concerns about various areas of life (e.g., their own health, their financial situation, the ...

Health Inequalities at Different Stages of the Lifecycle (Dissertation)

This thesis comprises three independent but closely related empirical studies dealing with different aspects of health inequalities at different stages of the life cycle. First, the thesis focuses on children aged 9-12 and explores whether maternal employment is related to the probability of being overweight among these children. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the results indicate that children ...

Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe

Fertitlity and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modelling Assumptions

Die Bereitschaft zur Weiterbeschäftigung im Ruhestandsalter im Zusammenhang mit sozioökonomischen Merkmalen

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob und inwiefern Informationen über den sozioökonomischen Status – gemessen an der beruflichen Stellung und dem verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen – zuverlässige Aussagen über die Bereitschaft, im Ruhestandsalter weiter zu arbeiten, treffen können. Kontrolliert werden diese Betrachtungen mit weiteren beruflichen und individuellen Merkmalen. Datengrundlage ist ...

The Impact of Socioeconomic Characteristics on Older Employees’ Willingness to Continue Working in Retirement Age

This article explores whether and to what degree information on the socioeconomic status – measured by professional status and disposable household income – allows making reliable statements on the willingness to remain in work in retirement age. These observations are controlled for professional and individual characteristics. The data basis is constituted by the study entitled “Continuing in employment ...

Child Well-Being in the EU and Enlargement to the East

The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe

Recent studies emphasize the impact of macroeconomic factors on educational attainment. They show that although individual factors like the educational level of one’s parents play a decisive role in determining the human capital accumulation of the children, the cohort size as well as the local labor market seem to have a significant impact, too. This paper analyzes the impact of birth cohort size ...

Returns to Education in Europe. Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey