The SOEP-CMI-ADIAB dataset (version 7520 v1) is made available by the SOEP and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). It contains data on SOEP survey respondents linked with respondents’ personal administrative data from the IAB, provided that the SOEP respondents have given their consent and could be identified in the IAB data. The survey data in SOEP-CMI-ADIAB include data from SOEP-Core, the ...
Die SOEP Innovations-Stichprobe (SOEP-IS) verfolgt das Ziel, innovative Datenerhebung für die Wissenschafts-Community zu ermöglichen und eignet sich daher in besonderem Maße für die Etablierung neuer und zielgruppenspezifischer Messinstrumente in Langzeiterhebungen, für Kurz- und Langzeitexperimente und für die Erhebung von Nicht-Umfragedaten (z.B. Biomarker). Interessierte Forscher*innen sollten ...
Jahrestagung 2023 des Industrieökonomischen Ausschusses im Verein für Socialpolitik
2023 Annual Meeting of the Committee for Industrial Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik
Whether trade can achieve societal change is a contested topic and difficult to investigate. This round-up aims at summarizing recent empirical research on this topic while focusing on democracy and democratization as an important part of societal change. No robust results for change arising from trade can be found, but there exists an inverse causality, i.e., democratization leading to more trade...
Die Regierung hat geringfügige Beschäftigung so attraktiv wie noch nie gemacht. Damit setzt sie fatale Anreize und fördert ausgerechnet die, die es gar nicht nötig haben. Die Bundesregierung fördert geringfügige Beschäftigung mit niedrigen Einkommen stärker denn jemals zuvor. Sie hat vor allem die Förderung sogenannter Midijobs massiv ausgeweitet. Diese Strategie ist ein Irrweg, der teuer, nicht zielgenau, ...
Inflation Inflation
This paper examines how households adjust their savings and consumption expenditure in response to an anticipated increase in the early retirement age (ERA). We examine the 1999 pension reform in Germany, which increased the ERA for women born after 1951 by at least three years. First, we present suggestive evidence that women update their retirement planning in response to the reform. Using the German ...
Leibniz ScienceCampusBerlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) Research Day At this BCCP Research Day (formerly known as BCCP Forum), Fellows will give short pitches of their current research. Since we also want to have enough time for discussions and networking, we plan long coffee breaks between the presentation sessions as well as get-together afterwards. The event will bring together all...
Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the market share of the Federal Employment Agency as job intermediary declined after the Hartz reforms. We propose ...
