Using individual based micro-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), I analyze the cyclicality of real wages for male workers within employer-employee matches over the period 1984-2004, and compare different wage measures: the standard hourly wage rate, hourly wage earnings...

Whereas the number of paid overtime hours declined over the last two decades in Germany, a different trend can be observed for unpaid overtime. We analyze future consequences of unpaid work with respect to a worker's career advancement, such as higher future wages and probabilities of promotion...

Empirical evidence from several countries reveals that self-rated health is a valid predictor of mortality. So far, there have been no studies conducted for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) we confirm the relationship between self-rated health and mortality...

Fast 20 Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer und dem damit in Ostdeutschland verbundenen Übergang auf eine Marktwirtschaft bestehen zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland immer noch Unterschiede in der Entlohnung von Humankapital. Auswertungen der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) für...

Die jährlich vom Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) durchgeführten Arbeitszeitberechnungen weisen seit Jahren einen Rückgang der bezahlten Überstunden in Deutschland aus. Jedoch stellt dieser Abwärtstrend der bezahlten Mehrarbeit nur einen Teil der Arbeitszeitentwicklung...

Whereas the number of paid overtime hours declined over the last decade, a different trend can be observed for unpaid overtime work in Germany. We look at the future consequences for overtime workers, and therefore investigate the investment character of working time. We examine whether unpaid...

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for the past smoking...

Although the standard work week is longer in East than in West Germany, there is a higher incidence and average amount of unpaid overtime in the East. We try to explain the striking differences in unpaid overtime by analyzing the labor supply side. We focus on the investment character of...

This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine...