The project analyses the effects of the statutory minimum wage on poverty in Germany. We use the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to examine the development of income poverty. Using a microsimulation model, the project studies the effect of minimum wages on social benefits.
Im Fokus der Studie steht die Analyse der Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf Armut im Zeitraum bis 2019. Dabei wird auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Entwicklung von Einkommensarmut und Armutsgefährdung untersucht. Im Rahmen der Analyse werden mithilfe eines Mikrosimulationsmodells zudem die Auswirkungen verschiedener Höhen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns...
Wie groß ist das Armutsrisiko für die Menschen in Deutschland? Wie entwickeln sich ihre Vermögensverhältnisse? Wie wird die Einkommensgerechtigkeit in Deutschland und Europa wahrgenommen? Dies sind nur einige der Fragen, auf die der Datenreport 2021 Antworten auf Basis der SOEP-Daten gibt. Insgesamt ist ein Viertel der 52 Berichte des Datenreports auf Grundlage der SOEP-Daten ...
The recently published 2021 Data Report answers questions such as: How great is the risk of poverty in Germany? How are people doing at building assets and wealth? How do people perceive income equality in Germany and Europe? One quarter of the 52 reports in the 2021 Data Report are based on SOEP data. The report combines data from official statistical sources with social research data and provides ...
This contribution analyses early retirement in Germany and Switzerland with a focus on financial resources. Using data from CH-SILC linked to administrative records and the German SOEP, we distinguish three different financial resources: namely, pre-retirement labour income, net worth and pension entitlements. High labour income reduces the probability for early retirement. In contrast, high pension ...
Involuntarily or planned – many refugees flee their home country alone, leave behind spouses and children but also siblings, parents and other family members they otherwise care for. Reunification in hosting communities is difficult, as governments limit institutional family reunifications and the individual journey of kin is dangerous and often illegal. Having family abroad is mentally distressing ...
We study how budget constraints affect effort provision in sequential elimination tournaments. Our main result is that the introduction of budget constraints has two opposing effects on the initial effort of the unconstrained contestants, and leads to a non-monotonicity of this effort. This implies that if the budget asymmetry is not too large, total first-stage effort from unconstrained contestants ...
