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SOEPpapers 914 / 2017
Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting these items leads to systematically different estimates. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study derives the following results. (1) Many combinations ...
2017| Olaf Hübler
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SOEPpapers 913 / 2017
Using representative German employee data, we analyse the role of works councils for the incidence of severance payments subsequent to dismissals. While there is a positive relation with severance payments after those dismissals which stem from plant closings, the incidence of a works council is negatively associated with severance pay subsequent to individual layoffs. In both cases, we find a negative ...
2017| Christian Grund, Johannes Martin
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SOEPpapers 912 / 2017
Well-being is often relatively stable across adulthood and old age, but typically exhibits pronounced deteriorations and vast individual differences in the terminal phase of life. However, the factors contributing to these differences are not well understood. Using up to 25-year annual longitudinal data obtained from 4,404 now-deceased participants of the nationwide German Socio-Economic Panel Study ...
2017| Andreas M. Brandmaier, Nilam Ram, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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SOEPpapers 911 / 2017
Aufgrund der Festlegung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns als Stundenlohn müssen valide Informationen, zu Bruttostundenlöhnen aus den Angaben zu Monatsentgelten und wöchentlichen Arbeitszeiten, berechnet werden. Dieser Beitrag vergleicht methodisch sowie empirisch das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und die Verdienst(struktur)erhebung. Demnach bestehen grundlegende konzeptionelle Unterschiede, in der Stichprobenziehung ...
2017| Matthias Dütsch, Ralf Himmelreicher, Clemens Ohlert
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SOEPpapers 910 / 2017
This study considers life satisfaction in relation to the empty nest syndrome, which is a situation where there are feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the parental home. In particular, the investigation considers the significance of Identity Economics when applied to parents experiencing a reduction in well-being following an extended ...
2017| Alan Piper, Ian Jackson
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SOEPpapers 909 / 2017
Das Paper behandelt die Entwicklung von vereinbarten, tatsächlichen und gewünschten Arbeitszeiten und analysiert deren Veränderung im Zeitverlauf für unterschiedliche Beschäftigtengruppen und Haushaltstypen. Die Analyse zeigt eine zunehmende Heterogenität der im Zeitverlauf tendenziell kürzer werdenden Arbeitszeiten sowie eine Angleichung zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland. Normgeprägte Arbeitszeiten ...
2017| Peter Sopp, Alexandra Wagner
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SOEPpapers 908 / 2017
We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given family. We consider several education outcomes conditional on family fixed effects. We take advantage of long running ...
2017| Dominique Lemmermann, Regina T. Riphahn
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SOEPpapers 907 / 2017
Die Armutsgefährdungsquote von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund liegt im Zeitraum 1995 bis 2015 deutlich über der von Personen ohne Migrationshintergrund. Im Berichtsjahr 2013 ist sie mit 26 % mehr doppelt so hoch wie die von Personen ohne Migrationshintergrund mit 12%.
2017| Johannes Giesecke, Martin Kroh, Ingrid Tucci, Anne-Luise Baumann, Nihad El-Kayed
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SOEPpapers 906 / 2017
We explore the effects of flexible work practices (FWPs) on the work attitudes (job satisfaction and turnover intention) and non-work attitudes (leisure satisfaction and perceived health) of employees based on representative large-scale German panel data. Because unobserved individual characteristics can easily act as confounders, we estimate both pooled OLS models and individual fixed-effects models. ...
2017| Claudia Kröll, Stephan Nüesch
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SOEPpapers 905 / 2017
This paper evaluates the impact of a massive expansion of after-school programs (ASPs) on the labor market participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using an instrumental variables approach we exploit regional and temporal variation in the provision of federal ASP starting grants by a nationwide investment program. ...
2017| Fabian Dehos, Marie Paul
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SOEPpapers 904 / 2017
Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions. Drawing on existing research, we investigate in how far women and men in those positions differ in their ...
2017| Anne Busch-Heizmann, Elke Holst
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SOEPpapers 903 / 2017
We study whether raising instructional time can crowd out student pro-social behaviour. To this end, we exploit a large educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that this rise has a negative and sizeable effect on volunteering, both at the intensive and at the extensive margin. It also affects political ...
2017| Christian Krekel
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SOEPpapers 902 / 2017
This paper documents methodology underlying the construction of the integrated data base for our study on “Wer trägt die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems” (Who bears the tax burden in Germany? – Distributional Analyses of the German tax and transfer system). Financial support from the Hans Böckler Stiftung for the project is gratefully acknowledged. ...
2017| Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
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SOEPpapers 901 / 2017
This paper investigates the redistributive impact of private and public childcare provision and education on children's resources in Germany between 2009 and 2013. It takes account of the multidimensionality of children's needs and access to economic resources by applying an extended income approach. Combining survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative data from the German ...
2017| Maximilian Stockhausen
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SOEPpapers 900 / 2017
We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid benefits for up to one year. The reform generated winners and losers with heterogeneous response incentives. We ...
2017| Annette Bergemann, Regina T. Riphahn
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SOEPpapers 899 / 2017
We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth – defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between the two countries: While average ...
2017| Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff
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SOEPpapers 898 / 2017
This paper estimates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both directly and indirectly affected spouses. Private social activities of either spouse, however, are only found to increase, if the indirectly affected spouse is not ...
2017| Lars Kunze, Nicolai Suppa
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SOEPpapers 897 / 2017
In this paper, we run regression analyses to explain voluntary turnover intentions with data from more than 5,000 employees and with about 250 explanatory variables. The findings of our multi-factor approach highlight the fact that previous empirical research might have over-estimated the impact and significance of many factors. We show the relevance of the so-called omitted variable bias to our findings ...
2017| Matthias Georg Will
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SOEPpapers 896 / 2017
We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these heterogeneities to identify their causal effects on fertility in a difference-in-differences setting. We apply ...
2017| Regina T. Riphahn, Frederik Wiynck
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SOEPpapers 895 / 2017
Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Administrative data like tax records offer more precise information on top incomes, but at the expense of household context details and incomes of non-filers at the bottom of the distribution. We combine the benefits of the ...
2017| Charlotte Bartels, Maria Metzing