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SOEPpapers 975 / 2018
Dieser Artikel untersucht mit Daten des SOEP 2016 (n=24.339) das von Holger Lengfeld gefundene Ergebnis, wonach Unterstützung für die AfD nicht mit niedrigen Statuslagen zu erklären ist. Er zeigt, dass geringes Einkommen, Berufsprestige, Bildung und Arbeitslosigkeit AfD-Unterstützung genauso wenig erklären können, wie Unzufriedenheit mit dem eigenen Einkommen oder der allgemeinen Wohlstandsentwicklung. ...
2018| Martin Schröder
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SOEPpapers 974 / 2018
To describe adult age differences in intertemporal choice, we analyzed data from 1,491 participants who completed an incentivized monetary intertemporal discounting choice task involving different conditions (e.g., time delay of 12 months vs. 1 month). Respondents completed a number of other survey measures, including behavioral measures of cognitive ability, and self-reports concerning health, financial ...
2018| David Richter, Rui Mata
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SOEPpapers 973 / 2018
Objective: This study examines how changes in cohabitation or marital status affect Body Mass Index (BMI) over time in a large representative sample. Methods: Participants were 20,950 individuals (50% female; 19 to 100 years), representative of the German population, who provided 81,926 observations over 16 years. Face-to-face interviews were used to obtain demographic data, including cohabitation ...
2018| Jutta Mata, David Richter, Thorsten Schneider, Ralph Hertwig
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SOEPpapers 972 / 2018
This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different institutional contexts. Drawing on theoretical perspectives in intergenerational mobility research and sociology of higher education, we estimate the extent to which these intergenerational effects depend on social and education policies. We use data from five longitudinal surveys to analyze ...
2018| Kristina Lindemann, Markus Gangl
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SOEPpapers 971 / 2018
This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students’ transitions after completing upper secondary education. Besides estimating the average treatment effect of parental unemployment on transition outcomes, we also aim to identify the economic, psychological or other intra-familial mechanisms that might be responsible for any adverse impact of parental unemployment ...
2018| Kristina Lindemann, Markus Gangl
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SOEPpapers 970 / 2018
This paper empirically explores the link between mass media coverage of migration and immigration worries. Using detailed data on media coverage in Germany, we show that the amount of media reports regarding migration issues is positively associated with concerns about immigration among the German population. The association is robust to the inclusion of time-variant individual control variables and ...
2018| Christine Benesch, Simon Loretz, David Stadelmann, Tobias Thomas
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SOEPpapers 969 / 2018
To analyze well-being effects of minimum wages, the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany in 2015 is used as a quasi-experiment. Based on the representative SOEP data, a difference-in-differences design compares the development of life, job, and pay satisfaction between those who are affected by the reform according to their pre-intervention wages and those who already have marginally higher wages ...
2018| Filiz Gülal, Adam Ayaita
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SOEPpapers 968 / 2018
We use the German Socio-Economic Panel to show that introducing a high-impact statutory minimum wage causes an increase in reservation wages of approximately 4 percent at the low end of the distribution. The shifts in reservation wages and observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are comparable in their magnitude. Additional results show that German citizens adjust their reservation wages more ...
2018| Alexandra Fedorets, Alexey Filatov, Cortnie Shupe
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SOEPpapers 967 / 2018
This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an instrumental variable. Using panel data, we run two-stage least squares regressions controlling for individual-specific ...
2018| Kamila Cygam-Rehm, Christoph Wunder
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SOEPpapers 966 / 2018
This paper investigates the effect of the refugee crisis, and the related government’s asylum policy, on concerns about immigration of the German population. Exploiting exogenous variation in survey interview timing of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), I employ a difference-in-differences strategy to estimate the short-term causal effect of the refugee crisis on concerns about immigration. The ...
2018| Alessandro Sola
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SOEPpapers 965 / 2018
This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the wage distribution). Using longitudinal survey data from Germany, the UK, and Australia, I combine unconditional quantile regressions with wage gap decompositions to identify the effect of personality traits on wage gaps. The results suggest that the impact of personality traits on wage ...
2018| Collischon, Matthias
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SOEPpapers 964 / 2018
We investigate the role of individual labor income as a moderator of parental subjective well-being trajectories before and after first childbirth for couples living in Germany. Analyzing German Socio-economic Panel Survey data, we found that income matters negatively for parental subjective well-being after childbirth, though with important differences by education and gender. In particular, among ...
2018| Marco Le Moglie, Letizia Mencarini, Chiara Rapallini
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SOEPpapers 963 / 2018
The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main finding is that women perceive their wage more often as fair if controls for hourly wage rates, individual and job-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the gender difference is more pronounced for married than for single women. This points to the fact that social ...
2018| Christian Pfeifer, Gesine Stephan
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SOEPpapers 962 / 2018
This paper decomposes the differences in aggregate market hours between US and Europe across gender-skill groups and finds that low-skilled women are the biggest contributors to aggregate differences, with the exception of Nordic countries. We develop a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. Taxes, which reduce market hours in favor of leisure and home production, ...
2018| Robert Duval-Hernández, Lei Fang, L. Rachel Ngai
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SOEPpapers 961 / 2018
Many studies confirm that marriage does not have lasting effects on levels of happiness, whereas divorce induces serious, scarring effects through social stigma. However, few academic efforts have been made regarding how remarriage after divorce impacts the subjective well-being (SWB) of the divorced. Taking into consideration that remarriage often entails regaining social acceptance, this paper examines ...
2018| Sueheon Lee
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SOEPpapers 960 / 2018
Working time preferences of employees have been discussed in scientific and public debates more frequently. Yet, representative studies show controversial results regarding over- and underemployment for Germany. But these differences can only partially be explained by varying definitions of populations or sample selection. By means of data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) this article highlights ...
2018| Verena Tobsch, Wenzel Matiaske, Elke Holst, Tanja Schmidt, Hartmut Seifert
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SOEPpapers 959 / 2018
A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: “opportunity” and “necessity” entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the previous literature on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there are ...
2018| Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
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SOEPpapers 958 / 2018
Many governments invest substantial public funds to foster early childhood education. And yet, there are still many open questions who responds to and who benefits from public investments into early childcare. We use the introduction of free public daycare in German states to analyze its effects on children and their families. Our results suggest that effects of the policy differ by child age, gender ...
2018| Anna Busse, Christina Gathmann
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SOEPpapers 956 / 2017
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our results indicate that the gender wage gap ...
2017| Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde, Irene van Staveren
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SOEPpapers 955 / 2017
Several studies have shown that income inequality has risen in Germany until 2005. Less focus was put on the rise of earnings inequality which continued to rise until 2010. We distinguish different groups in the labour market with respect to working-time, gender and region by exploiting data from the German Socio-Economic panel (SOEP) for the years 1995 till 2014. Using the decomposition of the Theil1-index ...
2017| Ulrike Stein