The percentage of children attending private school in Germany has increased sharply in recent years. According to data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), 7% of all students now attend private school. The SOEP, which contains a range of household data, shows that the children of parents...

In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a comparison of 20 countries the present study analyses to what extent this is due to the differences in the institutional framework conditions of a given country. The analyses are based...

Longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are used to examine developments in self-employment in Germany between 1984 and 1998.Following a discussion of the key characteristics of self-employment in Germany, the GSOEP data are used to determine who becomes...

This paper regards the incidence of in-work poverty and how it is reduced by the payment of social transfers in 20 European countries. It combines a micro- and a macro-level perspective in two-level models. The basis for the analysis is micro-data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living...

The Working Poor in Europe Employment, Poverty and Globalization Edited by Hans- Jurgen AndreB Professor of Empirical Social and Economic Research, University of Cologne, Germany Henning Lohmann Research Associate, German Socio-Economic Panel Study, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...