Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

How Rising Income Inequality Influenced Economic Growth in Germany

The cumulative growth rate of the German economy since reunification would have been around two percentage points higher if income inequality had remained constant. This is whatsimulations using the DIW Macroeconomic Model have shown. They were made under the assumption that the income distribution dynamics would not be influenced by any feedback effects of economic growth. In 2015, Germany’s real ...

Occupational and Income Mobility Patterns in Eastern Germany Following Unification (Dissertation)

Sampling Errors and Cross-Country Comparisons of Income Inequality

Measuring Income Mobility over Equivalent Adults

Universalism and Targeting: An International Comparison Using the LIS Database

Representative evidence on lying costs

A central assumption in economics is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Several recent models depart from this assumption and posit that some people do not lie or at least do not lie maximally. These models invoke many different underlying motives including intrinsic lying costs, altruism, efficiency concerns, or conditional cooperation. To provide ...

Country differences in the relationship between incomes and wage rates of working partners

This paper investigates the relevance of the cultural and economic country context for differences in the effect of male partner in come on female income and wage rate for 9,373 respondents in 13 European countries. Data taken from the European Community and Household Panel (ECHP), which comprises information on partner income trends between 1994 and 2001, were used to estimate fixed effect models. ...

Earnings Inequality in Germany

Cross-country inequality trends

Why do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence