Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Persistent Policy Effects on the Division of Domestic Tasks in Reunified Germany

Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in its Socio-Political Context

We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-a-vis macro and micro effects of wives’ employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives’ employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and ...

Inequality across the Generations in North America and Europe

Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in Rich Countries

Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility

A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to estimate poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty, and the duration of time spent in and out of poverty. The analysis focuses upon comparisons between East andWest ...

The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union

Parental time dedication and children’s education. An analysis of West Germany

Parental time dedication in childhood, at least of certain kinds, has been observed to be positive for children’s cognitive and emotional development. We examine two underexplored issues: a) the effect of time inputs in early childhood on later educational achievement (at age 17) and b) effect differences by parents’ level of education. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and analyze a ...

The Interaction of Job Satisfaction, Job Search, and Job Changes. An Empirical Investigation with German Panel Data

Using the rich data set of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) this article analyzes the effects of job characteristics on job satisfaction as well as the conditions under which low job satisfaction leads to job search, and under which job search leads to job changes. Individual fixed effects are included into the analysis in order to hold unobserved heterogeneity constant. According to the empirical ...

Performance Pay, Risk Attitudes and Job Satisfaction

We present a model in which workers with greater ability and greater risk tolerance move into performance pay jobs to capture rents and contrast it with the classic agency model. Estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel confirm testable implications drawn from our model. First, before controlling for earnings, workers in performance pay jobs have higher job satisfaction, a proxy for on-the-job ...