Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) ist als multidisziplinäres Haushaltspanel, das Informationen zu allen Personen, die in einem Panel-Haushalt leben, erhebt und damit alle Altersjahrgänge abdeckt, nach 25 Jahren Laufzeit auch zu einer Kohorten- Studie geworden. Der zunehmende Erfolg der...

"This article aims at describing and discussing the development of wage inequality in Germany in relation to the decline in collective wage bargaining, as this could be the institutional cause for the development since the 1990s. At the same time, the polarization hypothesis is discussed. Wage...

"This paper examines the relationship between the net union density, as a measure of union power, and the wage structure within and between segments of the German labour market in the period 1985-1997 on the basis of the IAB employment sample. Individual probabilities of trade union membership...

"This article aims at describing and discussing the development of wage inequality in Germany in relation to the decline in collective wage bargaining, as this could be the institutional cause for the development since the 1990s. At the same time, the polarization hypothesis is discussed. Wage...

In Germany, the number of women in relationships who are in gainful employment is on the rise. According to recent calculations by DIW Berlin based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), women contributed 30 percent of joint earnings among married and cohabiting couples in...

This paper estimates the wage effects of mobility across firms and occupations for male workers after apprenticehip in Germany. We employ an instrumental variables approach exploiting variation in regional labor market characteristics. Our estimates imply that pure firm changes and occupation...

"In 2004, the national and international debate on labor market performance forcefully made a case for more flexibility in the German labor market (OECD 1994, 2004; Heckman 2002; SVR 2002). In contrast, in 2010, experts were surprised by the flexibility of the German labor market during the world...

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...

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...