Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Income taxes and entrepreneurial choice: empirical evidence from two German natural experiments

Does tax policy affect entrepreneurial choice? We use two tax reforms in Germany as “natural experiments”. These reforms reduced the marginal income tax rate for entrepreneurs with income above a certain threshold, with the exception of freelance professionals. The two conditions for belonging to the treatment group allow us to apply a “difference-in-difference-in-difference” identification strategy ...

Minimum Protection and Poverty in Europe. An Economic Analysis of the Subsidiarity Principle within EU Social Policy (Dissertation)

Persistent Poverty in the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. A Model-based Approach Using Panel Data for the 1990s

Part-time Work and Childbirth in Europe: Scarring the Career or Meeting Working-time Preferences?

Working Part-Time in the British, German and Dutch Labour Market: Scarring for the Wage Career?

The paper studies the long-term effect of part-time employment on the wage career using panel data for three countries. The main idea is to study the possible 'scarring' effects of part-time employment on future hourly wages up to ten years later in the career. Fixed effects panel wage regressions show the existence of a part-time wage penalty for females in all three countries and for males ...

The impact of family structure during childhood on later-life attainment

Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes: Evidence for Germany

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a non-intact family in Germany. We find that this experience is associated with worse outcomes according to estimates from models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. Evidence of adverse effects emerges also when endogeneity is accounted for. ...

The Effect of Lone Motherhood on the Smoking Behaviour of Young Adults

We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany.

Who turned their back on the SPD? - Electoral disaffection with the German Social Democratic Party and the Hartz reforms

This paper proposes an empirical analysis of the declining support for the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) during Schröder government’s second term of office, which was marked by major reforms in the fields of unemployment insurance and labour market policy (Hartz reforms). Drawing on a panel of West Germans, we provide evidence that this disaffection was strongly related to a worker’s occupation ...

Item Nonresponse and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective (chapter 19)

This chapter outlines the basic characteristics of the three panel surveys focusing on the incidence of item nonresponse (INR) with respect to labor income. It demonstrates the selectivity entailed by INR and investigates the time dependence of nonresponse behavior. The chapter describes the imputation methods applied in the three surveys. Based on rather typical empirical research questions using ...