Länger arbeiten, aber wie? Diese Frage treibt viele um, wenn es um eine Erhöhung des Renteneintrittsalters geht. Weiterbildung ist essenziell, um Beschäftigte und Unternehmen gleichermaßen fit zu machen für einen späteren Renteneintritt. Eine aktuelle Analyse zeigt anhand der Abschaffung der sogenannten Rente für Frauen im Jahr 1999, dass das kein Selbstläufer ist. Damals stieg das vorzeitige Renteneintrittsalter ...
Workers in demanding jobs may be particularly negatively affected by an increasing statutory retirement age. We exploit a pension reform that raised the early retirement age of women from 60 to 63 years in Germany. Based on a large administrative social security data set we exploit the quasi-natural experiment using a regression-discontinuity approach. We find the same relative employment...
About two billion people in the world do not own a financial account and there are many more who use financial services only occasionally. In the past, initiatives which address these problems of financial exclusion focused on the supply side of financial markets, in particular by increasing the branch network of banks and by offering cheap bank products. While this had the desired effect, recent ...
Sabine Zinn wurde am 4.11.2020 zur Professorin für Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden mit dem Schwerpunkt Survey-Methodik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ernannt. Wir gratulieren und freuen uns, dass sie dem SOEP dabei weiterhin als Mitglied des Direktoriums und Leiterin des Bereichs „Surveymethodik und -management“ erhalten bleiben wird. „Darüber hinaus freuen ...
Sabine Zinn was appointed Professor of Social Science Methods with a focus on survey methodology at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on November 4, 2020. We congratulate her and are pleased that she will continue to serve as a member of the SOEP Board of Directors and as head of the division of Survey Methodology and Management. SOEP Director Stefan Liebig commented, “We are also very pleased ...
While the economic voting hypothesis is a well-researched approach to explain behavior at the ballot box, a broader perspective of economic, social and environmental issues regarding a government’s chances to get re-elected is still missing in the literature. In this context, this paper makes use for the first time of the Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the comprehensive ...
