Forschung SOEP: Soziale Ungleichheiten und Verteilung

Livestream: Social Mobility as a Key to Success for Economic Transformation and Reform

Social mobility and equal opportunity are key to thriving societies and economies. In the aftermath of the pandemic and in the context of increasing prices, calls for policymakers to address social and economic inequalities are intensifying. The recently launched Observatory on Social Mobility and Equal Opportunity not only brings together all OECD data points, but also displays the impact of...

Inequality, Taxation and Redistribution: Insights from a German/French Perspective (EQUITAX)

Während die Vermögens- und Einkommensungleichheit in vielen Ländern in den letzten Jahrzehnten zugenommen haben, gerieten die europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten angesichts wirtschaftlicher Schwierigkeiten und zunehmender Globalisierung unter Druck. Projektziel ist es, die effektivsten Steuer- und Transferinstrumente zur Reduktion ökonomischer Ungleichheit zu identifizieren. Hierfür werden Besteuerung...

Basic Income - From Vision to Creeping Transformation of the Welfare State

A Tale of Two Data Sets: Comparing German Administrative and Survey Data Using Wage Inequality as an Example

The IAB’s Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are the two data sets most commonly used to analyze wage inequality in Germany. While the SIAB is based on administrative reports by employers to the social security system, the SOEP is a survey data set in which respondents self-report their wages. Both data sources have their specific advantages and ...

Binary Response Format or 11-Point Scale? Measuring Justice Evaluations of Earnings in the SOEP

Questions on justice of earnings are regularly fielded in large-scale surveys but insights intothe role of response formats on measures of the justice of earnings are missing. This problem isillustrated by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which, in 2017, changed its question onthe justice of one’s own earnings from a binary response scale to an 11-point scale. Meanwhile, the shareof respondents ...

Inequality and Top Incomes

This chapter comprises three main parts. The first part is about data sources, the definitions of income, and the methodologies used to estimate top income shares. Both the standard sources and methods used by the traditional top income studies are described. Further, new developments that employ new sources and estimation approaches are added, a detailed survey of the top-correction methods for surveys ...

Basic Social Justice Orientations: Measuring Order-Related Justice in the European Social Survey Round 9

Individuals hold normative ideas about the just distribution of goods and burdens within a social aggregate. These normative ideas guide the evaluation of existing inequalities and refer to four basic principles: (1) Equality stands for an equal distribution of rewards and burdens. While the principle of (2) need takes individual contributions into account, (3) equity suggests a distribution based ...

Einkommensverteilung

Einsamkeit und Armut

Die Expertise erörtert den internationalen Forschungsstand zu Einsamkeit und Armut. Der Tenor dieser Studien ist eindeutig: Menschen, die von Armut betroffen sind, fühlen sich stärker einsam. Sie sind zudem häufiger sozial isoliert. Basierend auf diesen Erkenntnissen werden für Deutschland multivariate Analysen auf Datenbasis des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) für die Jahre 1985 bis 2020 durchgeführt. ...

Health Policy and Access to Health Care in Germany: A Fragmented System for Asylum Seekers’ Health

In Germany, health needs of citizens and ordinary residents are taken care of under the scope of statutory social and health insurance. The asylum-seeking population, however, receives healthcare through a parallel system, where decisions on provision of health services are not met at a central health governance level, but rather at federal state and sometimes at municipal...