Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Aspekte der gynäkologischen Betreuung und Versorgung von türkischen Migrantinnen in Deutschland (Habilitationsschrift)

Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: A Theory

Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment

Transition to Homeownership Among Immigrant Groups and Natives in West Germany, 1984-2008

The present article analyzes transitions to homeownership among immigrant groups and natives in West Germany over a 24-year period from 1984 to 2008. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), we find that everything else being equal, Turks, ex-Yugoslavians, Southern Europeans, and Eastern Europeans do not display any differences in transitions into homeownership. Immigrants from wealthy ...

The family gap in pay in Europe: A cross-country study

German Wage Underpayment: An Investigation into Labor Market Inefficiency and Discrimination

Using stochastic panel wage frontiers, this paper estimates the relative underpayment of females and males in the reunified Germany. The estimates are initially applied to discrimination analysis. It finds that females have higher underpayment and that the male-female differential increased over the period 1991–1993. However, the paper suggests that the estimates of underpayment reflect other concerns, ...

Welfare Migration in Europe and the Cost of a Harmonised Social Assistance

Female Proclivity to the World of Business

This paper investigates entrepreneurial women confronted with the self-employment or business career choice. Optimistic women have a higher proclivity to be businesswomen. Businesswomen select self- over paid employment when they are young or old, less educated, married or with under-age children. There are no significant native-immigrant differences. However, among immigrant women those who are in ...

Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: It pays to be self-employed

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in these challenging jobs. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel I estimate selection adjusted wage ...

Ethnic Identity and Work

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often perceived as irrational and suboptimal choices. Quantifying ethnic identity is a major issue; even more challenging ...