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  • SOEPpapers 163 / 2009

    The People of "Linden Tree Street" and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

    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
  • SOEPpapers 162 / 2009

    The Role of Psychological Traits for the Gender Gap in Full-Time Employment and Wages: Evidence from Germany

    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
  • SOEPpapers 161 / 2009

    Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

    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
  • SOEPpapers 160 / 2009

    Lohneinbußen durch geburtsbedingte Erwerbsunterbrechungen: fertilitätstheoretische Einordnung, Quantifizierung auf Basis von SOEP-Daten und familienpolitische Implikationen

    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
  • SOEPpapers 159 / 2009

    The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

    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
  • SOEPpapers 158 / 2009

    The Demographic Dilemma: Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation and Future Growth in Germany 2007-2060

    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
  • SOEPpapers 157 / 2009

    Multidimensionale Deprivation: Armutsgefährdung und medizinisch-gesundheitliche Versorgung

    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
  • SOEPpapers 156 / 2009

    Do Smart Parents Raise Smart Children? The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Abilities

    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
  • SOEPpapers 155 / 2009

    Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice: The (Near) Future of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

    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
  • SOEPpapers 154 / 2008

    On the Economics and Biology of Trust

    In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the identification of the exact role of trust in economic interactions has proven to be elusive. It is still not clear whether trust is just an epiphenomenon of good ...

    2008| Ernst Fehr
  • SOEPpapers 153 / 2008

    Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity

    The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the wellbeing of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of labour-market security. Those with good job ...

    2008| Andrew Clark, Andreas Knabe, Steffen Rätzel
  • SOEPpapers 152 / 2008

    Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patterns

    This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non-employment increases the probability of self-employment significantly, and selfemployment goes along with a higher risk of future non-employment.

    2008| Marco Caliendo, Arne Uhlendorff
  • SOEPpapers 151 / 2008

    Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany

    Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life satisfaction, while those who become less religious record long term losses. This result holds net of the effects ...

    2008| Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
  • SOEPpapers 150 / 2008

    The German Socio-Economic Panel as a Reference Data Set

    This paper discusses how household panels in general - and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in particular - can serve as reference data for researchers collecting datasets that do not represent the full universe of the population of interest (e.g., through clinical trials, intervention studies, laboratory and behavioural experiments, and cohort studies). We first discuss potential benefits of ...

    2008| Thomas Siedler, Jürgen Schupp, C. Katharina Spieß, Gert G. Wagner
  • SOEPpapers 149 / 2008

    Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty

    This paper provides evidence that subjective measures of individual well being can be used to study the impact of income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction with income is more affected by ex ante than ...

    2008| Johannes Schwarze
  • SOEPpapers 148 / 2008

    The East German Wage Structure after Transition

    We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure in East and West German wages for fulltime employed men in the private sector. The patterns in the returns to seniority are similar for the ...

    2008| Robert Orlowski, Regina T. Riphahn
  • SOEPpapers 147 / 2008

    Is There Migration-Related Inequity in Access to or in the Utilisation of Health Care in Germany?

    This paper analyses immigrants' access to health care and utilisation of health care services in Germany. Thereby, it is investigated if there is inequity in access to or in the utilisation of health care services due to a lack of language skills or due to a lack of information about the health care system (approximated by years since migration)among first- and secondgeneration immigrants. The data ...

    2008| Monika Sander
  • SOEPpapers 146 / 2008

    The First Six Waves of SOEP: The Panel Project in the Years 1983 to 1989

    This article describes how the German Socio-Economic Panel longitudinal study project developed over the years 1983 to 1989, a period when practical experience was being gathered with the first six waves and when the further funding for this large-scale project was a constant issue. During this time, a series of basic features were established that have made this panel study an example to others - ...

    2008| Ute Hanefeld, Jürgen Schupp
  • SOEPpapers 145 / 2008

    Measuring Wellbeing in the SOEP

    I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of wellbeing. In 2007, the SOEP included four items (happy, sad, angry, afraid) as an affective measure of ...

    2008| Ulrich Schimmack
  • SOEPpapers 144 / 2008

    Religion als Ressource sozialen Zusammenhalts? Eine empirische Analyse der religiösen Grundlagen sozialen Kapitals in Deutschland

    Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der systematischen empirischen Analyse des Einflusses von Religion auf Sozialkapital in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Als abhängige Variablen werden neben der Einbindung in formelle Netzwerke zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements und informelle Freundschafts- und Verwandtschaftsnetzwerke auch deren identitäts- und statusüberbrückenden Potentiale berücksichtigt. Die auf der ...

    2008| Richard Traunmüller
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