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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar The Role of Language Skills in the German Labor Market

(joint with Ingo Isphording and Sebastian Otten)

This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study the effect of language skills on labor market outcomes. To address problems related to endogeneity and measurement error, we construct an instrumental variable based on differences in language acquisition profiles of immigrants across the distribution of linguistic distance between German and the language spoken in the country of origin. Our findings indicate that the effect of language skills on employment probabilities is insignificant, while the positive effect of language skills on wages may be attributed to the sorting of immigrants across occupations. Our results further indicate that OLS regressions systematically underestimate the returns to language skills in the German labor market.

Referent

• Mathias Sinning (Australian National University)

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar Special: Poverty and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Perspective

We analyze the multi-faceted effects of poverty on the subjective well-being of individuals. Using panel data on more than 42,500 individuals living in Germany from 1993 to 2010 we show that self-reported satisfaction with life decreases as a result of both contemporaneous and past episodes of poverty. The intensity of contemporaneous poverty also plays an additional negative role. In addition, for poor individuals persistent poverty is more harmful than the same number of years of low income experienced with movements in and out of poverty. The negative effects of being in poverty are permanent and do not vanish over time: individuals do not adapt to poverty, and, even when subsequently out of poverty, they report lower satisfaction with life. These effects differ by population subgroups.

Referent

• Conchita D'Ambrosio (University of Milan - Bicocca, Italy)
  Andrew Clark (Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE))

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen Reducing binge drinking? The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays

Excessive alcohol consumption among the youth is a major public health concern both in Germany and Europe. In March 2010 the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10pm and 5am in off-premise outlets (e.g. petrol stations, supermarkets). We use monthly administrative data from a 70% random sample of all hospital admissions for the years 2007-2010 in order to evaluate the impact of this policy on alcohol-related hospitalizations. Applying a difference-in-difference approach, we find that the policy change reduces alcohol-related hospitalizations among teenagers and young adults by about 7-10%. (joint with Thomas Siedler)

Referent

• Jan Marcus, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar Special: Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relativistic: One group suffers relative to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others-are exophobic-or because they favor their own kind-are endophiles? We conduct a field experiment in which graders at one university are randomly assigned students' exams that did or did not contain the students' names. Examining the effects of matches by nationality or gender on exam scores, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither favoritism nor discrimination by gender. Favoritism by nationality is due chiefly to behavior by the most experienced graders and those who had been rated as poor teachers in previous courses. We observe heterogeneity in both discrimination and favoritism by nationality and by gender in the distributions of graders' preferences. Although we could not perceive our own in-groups excepting as they contrast to out-groups, still the in-groups are psychologically primary. Hostility toward out-groups helps strengthen our sense of belonging, but it is not required. [Allport, 1954]

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Referent

• Dan Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin and Royal Holloway University London
  (joint with Jan Feld and Nicolás Salamanca, ROA University of Maastricht)
  

Zeit

10:00 - 11:00

Ort

DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen Do mothers adjust their labor supply in response to child-raising benefits in the pension system?

Referent

• Andreas Thiemann, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar The Association between Educational Fields and Parenthood: The Question of 'How'

Research on education and fertility has been enriched by studies that take the educational field into account next to the educational level. But what causes the association between educational fields and fertility? This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining how characteristics of educational fields are related to the transition to parenthood and the timing of the first birth.

The data come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The analysis focusses on women in Western Germany, who hold a vocational or university degree and did not become mothers prior to graduation. Discrete Event History Models are applied to examine the impact of the share of women, the probability for employment in the public sector, the probability of part-time employment, the occupational specificity and the income potential of the educational field a woman is educated in on the transition to parenthood. To examine the impact of these characteristics on the timing of the first birth, two time axes are compared: the years since graduation and age.

The relationship between the share of women in a field and the transition rates to parenthood appears to be u-shaped, with high transition rates for women educated in fields with a low or an outstandingly high share of women. A negative relationship is found between the probability of public sector employment in a field and transition to parenthood, while the probability to work part-time positively impacts on the transition to parenthood. The occupational specificity of a field only impacts on the timing: women educated in fields with a high occupational specificity tend to postpone the birth of a first child but catch-up later. No impact of income potential of a field is found.

Referent

• Anja Oppermann (Universität Köln)

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376

Symposium 9th International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium

For the 9th time the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) of the University of Bremen and the Jacobs University and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in collaboration with the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) are pleased to announce the “International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium”.

The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoctoral researcher of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) to present empirical research in progress – carried out with panel data (especially SOEP data) – and to discuss theoretical, conceptual and empirical issues with senior researchers.

We encourage interested young scholars to submit abstracts. If you would like to attend the symposium, please submit an abstract of your topic (350 words, in English) together with complete contact information before November 15, 2012. We will inform you whether your proposal has been accepted before December 15, 2012. The deadline for submission of the full paper will be February 28, 2013. All accepted papers will be made accessible to commentators and participants one month prior to the symposium.

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• Programm-Flyer

Ort

Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Delmenhorst/ Germany

Ansprechpartner
extern

Anne Luise Baumann (abaumann@bigsss-bremen.de) and
Maike Schulz (mschulz@bigsss-bremen.de)

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen Bank’s trading activity, the lending channel and real investment - Evidence from individual firm-bank relationships in Germany

What began as a financial crisis in 2007/2008 quickly became a massive crisis of the real economy. We investigate the importance of the bank lending and firm borrowing channel in the transmission of asset price shocks to real investment. For the analysis we match individual firm and bank financial statements in Germany for the period of 2004-2010. The data include a large number of medium sized businesses. Using IV estimations in first differences to eliminate firm- and bank-specific effects, we find that banks which experience losses from their trading activities cut back lending, and firms whose relationship banks reduce lending decrease investment. The results support the view that a separation of own trading from commercial bank activities may contribute to shielding the real economy from financial crises.

Referent

• Martin Simmler, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar What can survey question ordering experiments tell us about fertility decision making?

Objective: In surveys, preceding questions can influence respondents' answers to later questions. As an individual's opinions toward their own fertility are highly dependent upon their circumstances, we test whether prior questions might influence the reporting of fertility preferences.

Methods: We use three experiments which manipulate the ordering of questions to examine the priming effects of preceding questions. The first two experiments test the effects on childbearing intentions of preceding questions on mortality and morbidity, using an internet survey given to students (n=872 and n=2365) at UK higher education institutions. The third experiment tests for an effect on childbearing intentions of preceding questions on close friends and family using participants (n=409) from the Innovation Panel of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, a broadly representative survey of the UK population.

Results: The first two experiments shows that for males, but not females, fertility preferences are significantly higher for individuals primed with questions on mortality and morbidity compared to the control group. The third experiment shows that unmarried participants significantly increase their expectation of having a child after questions on close friends and family compared to controls.

Conclusions: We conclude that fertility preferences are responsive to subtle primes, such as preceding questions. This needs to be taken into account when comparing across surveys. These experiments also highlight the uncertainty of fertility attitudes and thus the plasticity of fertility decision making.

Referent

• Paul Mathews (ISER, University of Essex)

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Gustav-Schmoller-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap

This study investigates the relationship between locally available quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions and the probability of maternal employment, use of formal and informal care arrangements. By considering several indicators of structural quality we extend the existing literature which has mostly focused on the importance of availability or costs of ECEC services for maternal work-care choices during the early years. We investigate the relationships with formal and informal care use, which mostly have been examined in two separate strands of the literature. Furthermore, we provide differentiated analyses for mothers with children aged under three and from three to school age, for East and West Germany, and for partnered and single mothers.

The empirical analysis is based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and on the "Families in Germany"-Study (FiD) for 2010 and 2011, which are linked with regional data on structural quality from German youth and welfare offices in 2010. We use probit regression models of maternal employment, use of formal and informal care, respectively. These components of maternal work-care decisions are interdependent and may be influenced by common unobserved factors. Therefore, the error terms between the probit regressions are allowed to correlate in a framework of seemingly unrelated estimations. Our results show negative associations of local child-teacher-ratios with maternal (full-time) employment and (full-day) formal ECEC use in several subgroups. The effects are stronger for single mothers compared to those with a partner and stronger in West Germany than in East Germany. Other structural quality indicators, such as group size and teacher education, are not significantly related to or show counterintuitive associations with maternal work-care arrangements.

Referent

• Patricia Gallego Granados, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar The role of family risk attitudes in education and intergenerational mobility: An empirical analysis

This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on 1984-2009 data of sons and fathers from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, there is evidence suggesting that sons with risk taking fathers have a significantly higher educational mobility and persistently higher income mobility than peers with risk averse fathers. They obtain significantly higher levels of education, which would be justified by modest evidence on higher returns to education. The relationship seems more complex for sons' own risk attitudes. Risk taking sons experience higher educational mobility, but there is no difference in income mobility to risk averse sons. There are no considerable differences in the levels of education, but modest evidence suggesting lower returns to education for risk taking sons. The findings improve the understanding of the intergenerational transmission mechanism of economic status and show that family risk attitudes impact economic mobility. The study suggests an important intergenerational link between fathers' risk attitudes and sons' levels of education, which has not received much attention in the literature.

Referent

• Mathias Hübener (University College London)

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376

Workshop SOEPcampus@DIW Berlin 2013
Workshop zur Einführung in die Nutzung von SOEP-Daten

Am 25. und 26. Februar 2013 veranstalten wir in Zusammenarbeit mit der TU Berlin wieder einen deutschsprachigen Einführungskurs zur Analyse der SOEP-Daten bei uns in Berlin. Neben einleitenden Plenarveranstaltungen mit Vorträgen zu Inhalt, Struktur und Nutzungsmöglichkeiten der SOEP-Daten, Hochrechnung und Gewichtung, sowie Analyseverfahren für Paneldaten liegt der Schwerpunkt des Workshops in Hands-on-Sessions. In deren Verlauf wird der Umgang mit den SOEP-Daten auf Basis verschiedener Softwarepakete am PC in kleinen Arbeitsgruppen geübt. Zudem wird auch das umfangreiche Dokumentationsmaterial und die SOEP-Support-Software (SOEPlit, SOEPinfo, Desktop Companion) vorgestellt.

Anmeldung

Eine Anmeldung war ab 7. Januar möglich, leider ist der Kurs jetzt schon überbucht, so dass wir keine Anmeldungen mehr entgegennehmen können.

Veranstaltungsort: DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr, 58, 10117 Berlin.
Die Teilnahme am Workshop ist abgesehen von einer geringen Verpflegungspauschale kostenlos. Die Reisekosten müssen jedoch selbst übernommen werden.

Vorausgesetzte Kenntnisse

Eine absolute Voraussetzung sind Kenntnisse einer Analyse-Software: Der Workshop gibt eine Einführung in die Analyse der SOEP-Daten, jedoch nicht in Software-Pakete wie Stata oder SPSS. Teilen Sie uns mit der Anmeldung bitte mit, welches Software-Paket Sie vorrangig nutzen. Weiterhin bitten wir um stichwortartige Angaben zur inhaltlichen Fragestellung, die Sie mit den SOEP-Daten bearbeiten wollen, sowie zum geplanten Untersuchungsdesign.

Für den Workshop ist es von Vorteil, wenn Sie mit Struktur und Fragestellungen des SOEP vertraut sind. Wir empfehlen deswegen die Vorab-Lektüre der demnächst erscheinenden Neuauflage des SOEP-Handbuchs "Desktop-Companion." 
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Sollten Sie weitere Fragen zum Workshop haben, wenden Sie sich bitte an  (SOEPcampus@diw.de).

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Christine Kurka

Tel.: +49 30 89789 283

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen Day-care quality and work-care choices of mothers in Germany

This study investigates the relationship between locally available quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions and the probability of maternal employment, use of formal and informal care arrangements. By considering several indicators of structural quality we extend the existing literature which has mostly focused on the importance of availability or costs of ECEC services for maternal work-care choices during the early years. We investigate the relationships with formal and informal care use, which mostly have been examined in two separate strands of the literature. Furthermore, we provide differentiated analyses for mothers with children aged under three and from three to school age, for East and West Germany, and for partnered and single mothers.

The empirical analysis is based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and on the "Families in Germany"-Study (FiD) for 2010 and 2011, which are linked with regional data on structural quality from German youth and welfare offices in 2010. We use probit regression models of maternal employment, use of formal and informal care, respectively. These components of maternal work-care decisions are interdependent and may be influenced by common unobserved factors. Therefore, the error terms between the probit regressions are allowed to correlate in a framework of seemingly unrelated estimations. Our results show negative associations of local child-teacher-ratios with maternal (full-time) employment and (full-day) formal ECEC use in several subgroups. The effects are stronger for single mothers compared to those with a partner and stronger in West Germany than in East Germany. Other structural quality indicators, such as group size and teacher education, are not significantly related to or show counterintuitive associations with maternal work-care arrangements.

Referent

• Pia S. Schober, Ph.D., DIW Berlin
• Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen The Incidence of Social Security Contributions - Empirical Evidence for Germany

This paper exploits an increase of the East German taxable maximum of health insurance to analyse the incidence of social security contributions. A difference-in-differences approach is used to estimate the effects on yearly changes in gross wages. Employees earning somewhat less than the taxable maximum serve as control group. I find that considerable shifting in any direction can be rejected.

Referent

• Michael Neumann, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Patricia Gallego Granados

Tel.: +49 30 89789 410

Applied Micro Seminar Heterogeneous returns over the lifecycle? Re-examining the returns to education in the UK

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• Veranstaltungs-Homepage

Referent

• Matt Dickson, University of Bath

Zeit

13:15-14:45

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Silke Anger

Tel.: +49 30 89789 526

Applied Micro Seminar The Illusion of School Choice: Empirical Evidence from Barcelona

Mehr Informationen

• Veranstaltungs-Homepage

Referent

• Maia Güell, University of Edinburgh

Zeit

13:15-14:45

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Silke Anger

Tel.: +49 30 89789 526

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar Body and Mind in the SOEP: Longitudinal interplay between physical health, subjective sleep quality, and perceived control

The relationship between body and mind has fascinated thinkers for centuries. During the last decade empirical research has started to unravel the processes mediating between indicators of physical health and psychological variables. However, longitudinal studies on representative samples on these processes are still scarce. The aim of the present study is to assess the longitudinal interplay between functional health, subjective sleep quality, and perceived control. Data from participants of the SOEP with information on functional health, subjective sleep quality, and perceived control are analyzed. Functional health is measured by grip strength in 2006 and 2010, subjective sleep quality was rated in 2008 and 2010, and perceived control was assessed in 2005 and 2010. Autoregressive crossed-lagged panel analysis is applied in three age groups (< 40 years, 40 – 59 years, and >59 years) controlling gender and age within the age group.

Referent

• Sakari Lemola (Uni Basel)

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar Special: Informationen zu SOEPlong

Referent

• Dr. Peter Krause, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar Growing up in a children’s home alters the set-point of general life satisfaction throughout the adult life-span

Little is known on childhood adversities such as growing up in children's home and enduring differences in life satisfaction in adulthood. In the present study we tested whether individuals reared in children's homes differ in their general life satisfaction from people raised in their families. The data comprised of 19,210 German adults (51.5% female) aged from 17 to 101 years (M = 44.79 years, SD = 18.74 years) and were provided by the SOEP, an ongoing, nationally representative longitudinal study of private households in Germany. Compared to people raised in families, individuals reared in children's homes reported significantly lower general life satisfaction in the manner of a dose response relationship. Therefore, growing up in a children's home can be regarded as a game changer - a factor that may alter children's life prospects indelibly.

Referent

• Dr. David Richter, DIW Berlin

Zeit

12:30 - 13:30

Ort

DIW Berlin (Eleanor-Dulles-Raum) DIW Berlin im Quartier 110 Mohrenstraße 58 10117 Berlin

Ansprechpartner
im DIW Berlin

Adrian Hille

Tel.: +49 30 89789 376