Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Unemployment, Labor Market Training Programs and Regional Wages: An Extended Wage Curve Approach

Labor market slack and the wage curve

´Phillips Curve´ or ´Wage Curve´ - Is there really a puzzle? Evidence for West Germany

Wage Dynamics and Unemployment in Germany: Evidence from Regional Panel Data

Performance-Related Pay and Earnings Dynamics in West Germany: A GEE-Type Approach to a Two-Equation Panel Data Model with Continous and Limited Dependent Variables

The changing shape of class-voting. An individual-level analysis of party support in Britain, Germany and Switzerland

Remodelling Class to Make Sense of Service Employment: Evidence for Britain and Germany

This paper presents a novel class schema that aims at responding to the analytical challenge of an increasingly tertiarized, skill-intensive and feminized employment structure. For this matter, the traditional vertical class criterion distinguishing between more or less advantageous employment relationships is complemented by a horizontal criterion. The horizontal criterion’s purpose is to separate ...

Occupational Change in Europe: How Technology and Education Transform the Job Structure

Welfare regimes and change in the employment structure: Britain, Denmark and Germany since 1990

Welfare states are often reduced to their role as providers of social protection and redistribution. In 1990, Esping-Andersen argued that they also affect employment creation and the class structure. We analyse the stratification outcomes for three welfare regimes – Britain, Germany and Denmark – over the 1990s and 2000s. Based on individual-level surveys, we observe a disproportionate increase among ...

Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around?: A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the community lose their job and remain unemployed ...