We congratulate Johannes Seebauer on successfully defending his dissertation on November 19, 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics’ and he was supervised by Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career!
Johannes Seebauer, Research Associate at SOEP and the DIW Graduate Center, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics” with summa cum laude on November 19, 2024. The scientific reviewers were Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. Congratulation!
We congratulate Mats Kröger on successfully defending his dissertation on 26 September 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Does a fair transition reduce efficiency? Essays on the distributional effects of energy and climate policy’ and he was supervised by Karsten Neuhoff and Chloé Le-Coq. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.
In this paper we document trends in inequality in earnings and disposable household income for men and women in Germany from 2001 to 2019. We find that males at the lower half of the earnings distribution have lower earnings in 2019 than in 2001. In contrast, female earnings have increased throughout the distribution. Households and the welfare state has cushioned much---but not all---of the...
Typically, poverty risk is assessed at the household level, neglecting within-couple income inequality and the role of individual characteristics in vulnerability to income poverty. This paper uses SOEP data and a quasi-experimental event study design to investigate poverty dynamics within couples over an 8-year period around the first birth. It follows partnered women (N=1,174) and men (N=1,137)...
We study the economic consequences of stress-related occupational illnesses (burnout) using Swedish administrative data. Using a mover design, we find that high-burnout firms and stressful occupations universally raise burnout risk yet disproportionately impact low-stress-tolerance workers. Workers who burn out endure permanent earnings losses regardless of gender—while women are three times more...
This paper analyses trends in mortality inequality in 330 Chilean communes from 1990 to 2010 for different age groups and both genders. Chile had substantial inequalities in local-level mortality rates in 1990 but by 2010 these disparities had significantly decreased, especially among infants, children and the elderly. The only exception was Chilean men aged 20–39, for whom inequality in mortality ...
