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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 ...

Old-age pension entitlements mitigate inequality - but concentration of wealth remains high

Entitlements from old-age pension schemes - statutory, company, and private - represent a considerable source of wealth. For data-related reasons, analyses of the personal wealth distribution have so far failed to take this into account, however. According to recent calculations based on the 2007 data of the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP), the present value of total pension and state annuity entitlements ...

Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the operationalization of CI in ...

Public Pension Entitlements and the Distribution of Wealth