Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Getting the Poor to Work: Three Welfare Increasing Reforms for a Busy Germany

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative reforms that involve employment subsidies to stimulate participation and full-time work, respectively. We ...

The Regional Dynamics of European Electoral Politics: Participation in National and European Contests in the 1990s

Subnational Analyses Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data Archive

Comparing Government Redistribution across Countries: The Problem of Second-order Effects

The traditional way of measuring government redistribution across countries is to compare the income households report that they receive from private sources with the income they receive after government transfers have been added and taxes and social insurance contributions deducted. Unfortunately, this conventional measure does not capture “second order” effects whereby income guarantees arising from ...

The Conditional Effects of Income Inequality on Extreme Right Wing Votes: A Subnational Analysis of Western Europe in the 1990's

Chapter 2: Is full employment passé?

Evaluation Report 2012

World Economic Outlook October 2007: Globalization and Inequality (Chapter 4)

Occupational Mobility in Germany

Occupational Affiliation Data and Measurement Errors in the German Socio-Economic Panel

This paper shows that there are severe measurement errors regarding the occupational affiliations in the German Socio-Economic Panel. These errors are traced back to the survey structure: in years where occupational information is gathered from the entire employed population instead of only from those declaring job or labor market status changes, average occupational mobility is around five times higher. ...