Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity

There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that relatively low labor supply elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically, we estimate 3,456 structural labor ...

The Sensitivity of Structural Labor Supply Estimations to Modeling Assumptions

There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in estimates especially between micro and macro models are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that the variation in elasticities derived from structural labor supply models can also be explained by modeling assumptions. Specifically, we estimate 3,456 different models ...

Employment transitions and poverty dynamics in Europe: Exit from poverty or working poor?

Welfare States, Labour Market Institutions and the Working Poor: A Comparative Analysis of 20 European Countries

This article regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. It combines a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models. The basis for the analysis is micro-data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2005 and macro-data from sources such as the OECD and Eurostat. The broad comparative ...

The working poor in European welfare states: empirical evidence from a multilevel perpective

Explaining in-work poverty within and across countries

Educational Poverty in a Comparative Perspective: Theoretical and Empirical Implications

Trends in Self-Employment in Germany: Different Types, Different Developments? (Chapter Two)

The different faces of in-work poverty across welfare state regimes

Towards a Framework for Assessing Family Policies in the EU