Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Econometric Analyses of Subjective Welfare and Income Inequality (Thesis)

University or job training: Korea and Germany compared

This study is the first to empirically compare the economic returns of human capital in South Korea and Germany. The study, based on the Mincer earnings model (1974), tested whether the wage gap between university graduates and those with lower educational levels is wider in South Korea than in Germany, due to differences in job training. The study estimated the wage gaps by employing random effects ...

Two Aspects of Labor Mobility: A Bivariate Poisson Regression Approach

The study introduces a distinction between two types of labor mobility. Direct job to job changes (which are assumed to be voluntary) and job changes after experiencing an unemployment spell (assumed to be involuntary). Exploiting the close relationship between those two phenomena we adopt a bivariate regression framework for our empirical analysis of data on male individuals in the German labor market. ...

Parent-Child Transfers in Germany - Evidence from Panel Data

Parent-Child-Transfers in Germany: A Study of Magnitude and Motivations

Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Analyse privater Transfers in Deutschland mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP). Für das Jahr 1995 wird die Summe lebzeitiger Eltern-Kind-Transfers auf etwa 17 Milliarden DM geschätzt. Die ökonometrische Analyse basiert auf zwei Unterstichproben aus dem SOEP: einem Eltern-Datensatz, der Informationen über eine große Zahl von Elternhaushalten enthält, und einem ...

Do Germans Save to Leave an Estate? An Examination of the Bequest Motive

The Distribution of the German Public-Private Wage Gap

Age, Cohort, and the Slump of Job Satisfaction among West German Workers

Using German panel data, I examine the long-term development in satisfaction with work from 1984 until 2001. As was the case for many other industrialized countries, Germany witnessed a sharp decline in workers’ self-reported job satisfaction in the late 1980s and 1990s, the reason of which is yet unknown. I present a cohort analysis of job satisfaction using various identifying assumptions to examine ...

Unemployment, recall error, and life satisfaction

The Welfare Costs of Addiction