Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Are unemployment insurance systems in Europe capable of covering the special risks that persons with non-standard employment contracts are facing? (Dissertation)

Are unemployment insurance systems in Europe adapting to news risks arising from non-standard employment?

Gender differences in unemployment insurance coverage - a comparative analysis

Flexible working lives and pension coverage in Europe with a focus on women: Lessons to be learned by Germany

In particular due to increasing female employment over the last decades employment has become more flexible in regard to the contract form and we observe more discontinuous employment careers. This paper discusses in how far retirement pension systems in Europe are suited to cover the specific risks of flexible workers. Recent reforms to these systems (e.g. the strengthening of private elements) and ...

Precarious employment in the public and private service sectors: comparing the UK and Germany

Explaining leaving union membership by the degree of labour market attachment: Exploring the case of Germany

By particularly stressing the weaker labour market attachment of workers with non-standard contracts, this article contributes to the rather unexplored issue of mainly non-union-related reasons for leaving trade unions. Germany has been selected as a case study because German unions experienced a steady decline in membership, while at the same time non-standard employment arrangements increased considerably ...

Sustainable consumption in capability perspective: Operationalization and empirical illustration

The present research combines the capability approach (CA) with the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to investigate the effects of social norms and personal autonomy on sustainable consumption behavior. The approaches bear some similarities, but differ in that the CA attaches more importance to autonomy and highlights the indirect effects of social influence. In contrast to TPB, the CA suggests indirect ...

Does good advice come cheap? –– On the assessment of risk preferences in the lab and the field

Advice is important for decision making, especially in the financial sector. We investigate how individuals assess risk preferences of others given sociodemographic information or pictures. Both non-professionals and financial professionals participate in this artefactual field experiment. Subjects mainly rely on the other's self-assessment of risk preferences and on gender when forming the belief ...

Stereotypes and Risk Attitudes: Evidence from the Lab and the Field

Recent studies have found correlations between risk attitudes and several sociodemographic characteristics. In this paper, we deploy an artefactual field experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and -financial professionals - are aware of these correlations. This is largely confirmed by our results for all subject groups. We show that the subjects attach informational value to sociodemographic ...

Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market

This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and Hoffman’s augmented wage equation – the workhorse model in the overeducation literature – in which wages are regressed ...