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SOEPpapers 734 / 2015
Die vorliegende Studie geht der Frage nach, ob und inwiefern ehemalige Leistungssportler im späteren Berufsleben erfolgreicher sind als Nichtsportler. Die zugrundeliegende Überlegung ist, dass sich Leistungssport positiv auf die Entwicklung von Charaktereigenschaften auswirkt, die auch im späteren Berufsleben nützlich sind. Erfolg wird dabei anhand des Einkommens der betrachteten Personen gemessen. ...
2015| Ralf Dewenter, Leonie Giessing
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SOEPpapers 733 / 2015
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most paid employees, but not for the self-employed, who usually buy private health insurance. Private health insurance contributions are relatively low for the young ...
2015| Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König
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SOEPpapers 732 / 2015
This paper evaluates the impact on temporary agency workers’ job satisfaction of a reform that considerably relaxed regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a difference-in-difference and matching approach and using rich survey data. We find that the change of the law substantially decreased agency workers’ job satisfaction ...
2015| Henna Busk, Elke J. Jahn, Christine Singer
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SOEPpapers 731 / 2015
In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and Switzerland, using longitudinal panel data ...
2015| Emily Murphy, Daniel Oesch
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SOEPpapers 730 / 2015
In der Industrie findet ein kontinuierlicher Prozess der internen Tertiarisierung statt. Die Zahl der Angestellten ist inzwischen ebenso hoch wie die der Arbeiter. Der Frauenanteil unter den Angestellten stagniert allerdings. Das Niveau der prekären Beschäftigungsformen wie Befristungen, Minijobs oder Leiharbeit ist bei den Angestellten weit niedriger als bei den Arbeitern. Zugleich weisen Angestellte ...
2015| Thomas Haipeter, Christine Slomka
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SOEPpapers 729 / 2015
Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic behavior, generating possible consequences for non-migrants in both home and host countries. In this paper we provide a thorough examination of the various aspects ...
2015| Christian Dustmann, Joseph-Simon Görlach
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SOEPpapers 728 / 2015
This paper investigates the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being in major German cities, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the time period between 2000 and 2012 and cross-section data from the European Urban Atlas (EUA) for the year 2006. Using a Geographical Information System (GIS), it calculates the distance to urban green and abandoned ...
2015| Christian Krekel, Jens Kolbe, Henry Wüstemann
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SOEPpapers 727 / 2014
The Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development (MTD) identifies motivational and self-regulatory strategies that people use to meet the challenges they face throughout life. The theory distinguishes control strivings related to goal engagement from those related to goal disengagement and goal reengagement. In the Innovation Sample of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-IS), these control strivings were ...
2014| Ina Schöllgen, Denis Gerstorf, Jutta Heckhausen
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SOEPpapers 726 / 2014
This contribution analyses the presumption that subjective assessments of cognitive life satisfaction provide hardly any valid information about the respondent’s real quality of life, since subjective assessments are subject to short term context-events and the affective state of the respondent in the moment of answering the questionnaire. Starting from this thesis, the author uses the 50.359 participants ...
2014| Aljoscha Richter
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SOEPpapers 725 / 2014
Using multilevel models on the German Socio‐Economic Panel Study this paper shows that disadvantaged young adults (16‐35 years old) are more affected by the business cycle than their similarly educated counterparts from more advantaged backgrounds. We propose that a disadvantaged background lowers desirability on the labour market, which matters more to employers as the labour market tightens. When ...
2014| Wouter Zwysen
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SOEPpapers 724 / 2014
Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but neglected the effects on their partners. In the present study, we used dyadic multilevel models to analyze longitudinal data from 2,973 couples selected from a German representative panel study to examine the effects of unemployment on life satisfaction in couples over several years. ...
2014| Maike Luhmann, Pola Weiss, Georg Hosoya, Michael Eid
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SOEPpapers 723 / 2014
Educational attainment, length of stay, differences in national background and language skills play an acknowledged important role for the integration of immigrants. But integration is also a social process, which suggests that psychological factors are relevant. This paper explores whether and to what extent immigrants and their children need to believe in their ability to control their own success. ...
2014| Anna-Elisabeth Thum
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SOEPpapers 722 / 2014
This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who do not face a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011, to show that wages and the financial penalty for maternity differ according to the ...
2014| Nele E. Franz
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SOEPpapers 721 / 2014
Background: After the reunification of Germany, mortality among older eastern Germans converged quickly with western German levels. Simultaneously, the pension benefits of eastern Germans rose tenfold. Objective: We make use of German reunification as a natural experiment to show that, first, increasing financial transfers from the elderly to their children led to increasing reverse transfers in the ...
2014| Tobias C. Vogt, Fanny A. Kluge
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SOEPpapers 720 / 2014
In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age of 40. A second observation ...
2014| Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
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SOEPpapers 719 / 2014
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes. We focus on the career start since we expect that temporary contracts and their inherent economic uncertainty imply a path dependency which might have spill-over effects on other domains of life. Our empirical analysis is based on rich data from the German Socio-Economic Panel which ...
2014| Wolfgang Auer, Natalia Danzer
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SOEPpapers 718 / 2014
In an empirical study based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the effect of job quality on individual health is analyzed. Extending previous studies methodologically to estimate unbiased effects of job satisfaction on individual health, it can be shown that low job satisfaction affects individual health negatively. In a second step, the underlying forces of this broad effect are disentangled. ...
2014| Jan Kleibrink
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SOEPpapers 717 / 2014
We discuss and compare fi…ve measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the information requirements of these measures, we illustrate their implementation using data from the German Socio-Economic ...
2014| Koen Decancq, Dirk Neumann
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SOEPpapers 716 / 2014
In this paper we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills as well as indicators of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and find substantial influence of shared family and community background on all outcomes. To further disentangle the influence of family background and neighborhood, ...
2014| Elisabeth Bügelmayer, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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SOEPpapers 715 / 2014
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. Throughout the experiment we record ...
2014| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist