We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed – particularly women – in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that among the self-employed, who generally face ...
Potsdam:
CEPA,
2021,
72 S.
(CEPA Discussion Papers ; 27)
| Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed – particularly women – in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that among the self-employed, who generally face ...
Maastricht [u.a.]:
Global Labor Organization,
2021,
72 S.
(GLO Discussion Paper Series ; 788)
| Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
Previous research suggests that minimum wages induce heterogeneous treatment effects on wages across different groups of employees. This research usually defines groups \textit{ex ante}. We analyze to what extent effect heterogeneities can be discerned in a data-driven manner by adapting the generalized random forest implementation of Athey et al (2019) in a difference-in-differences setting. Such ...
SSRN,
2020,
37 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Patrick Burauel, Carsten Schroeder
This paper presents the first comprehensive study of the long-run evolution of wealth inequality in Germany. We combine tax data, surveys, national accounts and rich lists to study the distribution of wealth in Germany from 1895 to 2018. We show that the concentration of wealth in the hands of the top 1% has fallen by half, from close to 50% in 1895 to less than 25% today. The interwar period as well ...
Bonn:
EconTribute,
2020,
68 S.
(EconTribute Policy Brief ; 001)
| Thilo N. H. Albers, Charlotte Bartels, Moritz Schularick
We quantify the contribution of rental income to pre- and post-government equivalent household income inequality and of housing wealth to net wealth inequality between 2002 and 2017 in Germany by means of a factor decomposition. Further, we differentiate by region types (urban vs. rural, large vs. small municipalities) and federal states. We find that housing wealth, housing ownership and rental income ...
Berlin:
Forum for a New Economy,
2020,
25 S.
(Forum for a New Economy Working Papers ; 7)
| Charlotte Bartels, Carsten Schroeder
Die Covid-19-Pandemie hat das Leben vieler Menschen negativ beeinflusst. Auf Basis einer Sonderbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP-CoV) zeigt sich, dass die Pandemie die rund 4,2 Millionen Selbstständigen in Deutschland im Vergleich zu den abhängig Beschäftigten stärker getroffen hat. Dabei besteht ein deutlicher Gender Gap: Während 47 Prozent der selbstständigen Männer Einkommensverluste ...
2021| Johannes Seebauer, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Graeber
Die Corona-bedingten Schulschließungen sowie die Schließung von Kinderbetreuungseinrichtungen im April und Mai 2020 haben viele Eltern vor eine immense Herausforderung gestellt. Plötzlich mussten Kinder ganztags Zuhause betreut und beschult werden. In diesem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage nach der subjektiven Belastung, der sich Eltern durch die Beschulung ihrer Kinder Zuhause ausgesetzt ...
In:
Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
24 (2021), 2, S. 339–365
| Sabine Zinn, Michael Bayer
Less-educated persons have worse cardiovascular health. We compare the educational gradients in three disease-specific health measures (biomarkers, self-reported doctors’ diagnoses and cause-specific mortality) in order to compare their relevance in different stages of the disease process. We study 14,102 people aged 50–89 from the US Health Retirement Study (HRS) in the period 2006–17. We use six ...
In:
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
12 (2021), 4, S. 591–607
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger
In most cross-national research on Life Satisfaction (LS) an implicit assumption appears to be that the correlates of LS are the same the world over; ‘one size fits all’. Using data from the World Values Survey (1999–2014), we question this assumption by assessing the effects of differing personal values/life priorities on LS in five world regions: the West, Latin America, the Asian-Confucian region, ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
(2022), im Ersch. [online first: 2021-03-25]
| Bruce Headey, Gisela Trommsdorff, Gert G. Wagner
This article highlights the potentials for migration research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a longitudinal panel dataset of private households in Germany running since 1984. We provide a concise overview of its basic features, describe the survey contents and research potentials, and demonstrate opportunities to link external data sources to the SOEP thereby presenting its diverse ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
241 (2021), 4, S. 527–549
| Jannes Jacobsen, Magdalena Krieger, Felicitas Schikora, Jürgen Schupp
Many people are suffering from the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Refugees, however, belong to one of the underpriviliged groups in many areas of society. They are more likely than average to live in overcrowded living quarters such as community housing and are thus exposed to a higher risk of infection. At the same time, even before the pandemic, they were more likely than average to experience ...
2021| Theresa Entringer, Jannes Jacobsen, Hannes Kröger, Maria Metzing
Unter den Folgen der Corona-Pandemie leiden viele Menschen. Geflüchtete gehören jedoch in vielen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen zu einer der am schlechtesten gestellten Gruppen. Sie leben überdurchschnittlich häufig in beengten Wohneinrichtungen wie Gemeinschaftsunterkünften und sind dadurch einem erhöhten Infektionsrisiko ausgesetzt. Gleichzeitig waren sie schon vor der Pandemie überproportional häufig ...
2021| Theresa Entringer, Jannes Jacobsen, Hannes Kröger, Maria Metzing
Leibniz ScienceCampus SOEP-RegioHub at Bielefeld University (SOEP@UBi)
Living conditions in Germany today show evidence of increasing and rapidly changing regional disparities in structural, demographic and economic domains. These disparities often take the form of an adverse access to health care facilities, childcare provision, education and other public services as well as regional labour...
Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus SOEP-RegioHub an der Universität Bielefeld (SOEP@UBi)
Die Lebensbedingungen in Deutschland sind heute durch zunehmende und sich rasch verändernde regionale Disparitäten in strukturellen, demografischen und ökonomischen Bereichen gekennzeichnet. Wie diese regionalen Disparitäten zusammenhängen und welche Folgen sie für den...
The project analyses the effects of the statutory minimum wage on poverty in Germany. We use the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to examine the development of income poverty. Using a microsimulation model, the project studies the effect of minimum wages on social benefits.
Im Fokus der Studie steht die Analyse der Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf Armut im Zeitraum bis 2019. Dabei wird auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Entwicklung von Einkommensarmut und Armutsgefährdung untersucht. Im Rahmen der Analyse werden mithilfe eines Mikrosimulationsmodells zudem die Auswirkungen verschiedener Höhen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns...
This contribution analyses early retirement in Germany and Switzerland with a focus on financial resources. Using data from CH-SILC linked to administrative records and the German SOEP, we distinguish three different financial resources: namely, pre-retirement labour income, net worth and pension entitlements. High labour income reduces the probability for early retirement. In contrast, high pension ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
47 (2021), 100392, 10 S.
| Ursina Kuhn, Markus M. Grabka, Christian Suter