Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Gender pay gap lower in large cities than in rural areas

Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses on occupational gender segregation, and on the effects of this inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity ...

Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and the devaluation of women’s work, ...

Productivity Effects of Overeducation in West Germany - First Results

Tied Movers, Tied Stayers: The Higher Risk of Overeducation among Married Women in West Germany

Overqualification: reasons, measurement issues and typoligical affinity to unemployment

The effects of overeducation on productivity in Germany - the firms' viewpoint

The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?

Parents´ Social Activities and Children´s School Attainments - First Results

Do Parents' Social Activities Promote Children's School Attainments? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel