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SOEPpapers 174 / 2009
We address the empirical question to which extent higher fuel efficiency of cars affects additional travel and how this behavioural aspect is modified by additional variables. The data set used to estimate a theoretical model of the rebound effect covers two panel waves, 1998 and 2003, taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). To take full advantage of the information in the data available, ...
2009| Wenzel Matiaske, Roland Menges, Martin Spieß
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SOEPpapers 173 / 2009
Demographic change is a key consequence of the development of modern societies. The prolongation of life expectancy, shifts of mortality into later life and long-term low fertility rates cause essential changes in population structures - with an increase in the number and proportion of older people as a key feature. The changes in mortality patterns can be seen as a success of modern society. But demographic ...
2009| Laura Romeu Gordo, Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, Susanne Wurm
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SOEPpapers 172 / 2009
Sick leave payments represent a significant portion of public health expenditures and labor costs. Reductions in replacement levels are a commonly used instrument to tackle moral hazard and to increase the efficiency of the health insurance market. In Germany's Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) system, the replacement level for periods of sickness of up to six weeks was reduced from 100 percent to 80 ...
2009| Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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SOEPpapers 171 / 2009
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) has been providing representative data records on the population in Germany in annual surveys since 1984, i.e., for almost 25 years. With the 2008's fieldwork, 25 waves have been completed. The SOEP expanded to include a sample from East Germany in 1990 as well as to include special samples on immigration and high-income households. Looking back over 25 ...
2009| Gisela Trommsdorff
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SOEPpapers 170 / 2009
Der Beitrag diskutiert hinsichtlich der Erstellung verknüpfter Datensätze von Arbeitnehmern und Betrieben unterschiedliche Vorgehensweisen und die damit verbundenen spezifischen Vor- und Nachteilen. Ausführlich wird dabei die employee-first-method vorgestellt, zu dem bislang in der Surveyforschung lediglich entsprechende Vorbildstudien aus den USA vorliegen. Es kann für Deutschland gezeigt werden, ...
2009| Alexia Meyermann, Jennifer Elsner, Jürgen Schupp, Stefan Liebig
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SOEPpapers 169 / 2009
Obwohl eine Vielzahl an Studien zum geschlechtsspezifischen Verdienstunterschied und dessen Erklärung existiert, konzentrieren sich bisher nur vergleichsweise wenige auf den "gender pay gap" in Führungspositionen, der im Fokus dieses Beitrags steht. In der hoch selektiven Gruppe der Führungskräfte in der Privatwirtschaft in Deutschland unterscheiden sich die Geschlechter in ihrer Humankapitalausstattung ...
2009| Elke Holst, Anne Busch
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SOEPpapers 168 / 2009
In this paper we discuss the complementarity of laboratory and field data. Experiments offer highly controlled environments that allow precise testing and causal inferences. Survey and field data on the other hand provide information on large and representative samples of people interacting in their natural environment. We discuss several concrete examples how to combine lab and field data and how ...
2009| Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, Uwe Sunde
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SOEPpapers 167 / 2009
Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments claiming to measure trust, and how ...
2009| Michael Naef, Jürgen Schupp
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SOEPpapers 166 / 2009
International Outsourcing effects on labor markets are mostly analyzed within flexible wage settings. Using a modern duality approach, this paper formally investigates differences occurring in industries with low skilled wage rigidity and, for the first time in literature, presents empirical evidence supporting the theoretical findings. Using a logit model to analyze microeconomic German panel data, ...
2009| Daniel Horgos
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SOEPpapers 165 / 2009
Measuring ego-centered networks is an especially time-expensive endeavor. However, to be included in multi-thematic surveys, parsimony is needed instead of following a maximizing strategy. Therefore, one pressing questions is, whether and which type of parsimonious data collection produces what losses of information. We address these questions by comparing three different, but closely related operationalizations ...
2009| Sebastian Sattler, Martin Diewald
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SOEPpapers 164 / 2009
Attrition is mostly caused by not contacted or refusing sample members. On one hand it is well-known that reasons to attrite due to non-contact are different from those that are due to refusal. On the other hand does non-contact most probably affect household attrition, while refusal can be effective on both households and individuals. In this article, attrition on both the household and (conditional ...
2009| Oliver Lipps
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SOEPpapers 163 / 2009
Lately I have been receiving numerous requests for contributions to commemorative publications, farewell speeches, and anniversary lectures. I cannot respond to all of these requests, especially since not all of them are as inspiring as the one today: the 25th (in words: the twenty-fifth!) wave of the SOEP! This is indeed an anniversary that should be duly celebrated and honored. The German soap opera ...
2009| Hartmut Esser
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SOEPpapers 162 / 2009
This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big five", positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, evidence from regression and decomposition techniques suggests that gender differences in psychological traits ...
2009| Nils Braakmann
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SOEPpapers 161 / 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.
2009| Annette Bergemann, Regina T. Riphahn
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SOEPpapers 160 / 2009
Die hier referierte Untersuchung hat zum Ziel, die Auswirkungen von Erwerbsunterbrechungen von Frauen im Zusammenhang mit der Geburt ihres ersten Kindes auf die Lohnentwicklung der Frau in ihrem weiteren Erwerbsverlauf zu berechnen. Auf Basis dieser Ergebnisse sollen sowohl ein Erklärungsbeitrag zum Fertilitätsverhalten deutscher Frauen geleistet als auch Ansatzpunkte für familienpolitische Instrumente ...
2009| Christina Boll
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SOEPpapers 159 / 2009
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based on a bias-adjusted measure of hours spent on home production. Sensitivity analyses comparing results obtained ...
2009| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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SOEPpapers 158 / 2009
The aim of this paper is to show possible consequences of changes in labor force participation of women and the connection between fertility and labor force participation on the future demographic and economic development in Germany. For this purpose a projection model based on micro-data covering the population development as well as the development of the labor force is computed for different scenarios, ...
2009| Christian Dudel
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SOEPpapers 157 / 2009
Mit Blick auf die Gesundheitsreform 2004 und ausgehend von einer multidimensionalen Konzeption von Armut fragt der vorliegende Artikel nach dem Beitrag der wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Institutionen zur Armutsvermeidung. Auf der Grundlage der aus der Forschung bekannten Ursachen gesundheitlichen Mangels wird zur Beantwortung dieser Frage der Zusammenhang von Armutsgefährdung und medizinisch-gesundheitlicher ...
2009| Yasemin Niephaus
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SOEPpapers 156 / 2009
Complementing prior research on income mobility and educational transmission, we provide evidence on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our estimates suggest that individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to the abilities of their parents, even when educational attainment and family background is controlled for. ...
2009| Silke Anger, Guido Heineck
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SOEPpapers 155 / 2009
Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) ist als multidisziplinäres Haushaltspanel, das Informationen zu allen Personen, die in einem Panel-Haushalt leben, erhebt und damit alle Altersjahrgänge abdeckt, nach 25 Jahren Laufzeit auch zu einer Kohorten- Studie geworden. Der zunehmende Erfolg der Forschungsinfrastruktur-Einrichtung SOEP speist sich in erster Linie daraus, dass die Analysekraft von Längsschnittstudien ...
2009| S. Anger, F. Frick, J. Goebel, M. Grabka, O. Groh-Samberg, H. Haas, E. Holst, P. Krause, M. Kroh, H. Lohmann, J. Schupp, I. Sieber, T. Siedler, C. Schmitt, C. K. Spieß, I. Tucci, G. G. Wagner