We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on …

Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) mit der Lohnstruktur auf deutschen Arbeitsmärkten beschäftigen. Die Analysen nutzen neben … deutliche Unterschiede zwischen Ost und West sowie zwischen großen und kleinen Unternehmen hervor. -- Lohnstruktur …This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s … ; earnings mobility ; income mobility ; Germany ; East Germany ; inequality ; transition matrix ; Shorrocks index …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear …

survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …