Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Intra-Household Decision-Making: New Evidence from the Innovation Sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel

Using data from a new survey we designed for the Innovation Sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), we document the relationship between marital sorting and intra-household decision-making, with a focus on consumption allocations and employment changes due to having children. Our rst main nding is that most households in our sample (72%) split private consumption equally between partners, ...

Die Rolle der Betriebsvermögen in der Vermögensverteilung

Seit Jahren stehen die Verteilung und Konzentration der Vermögen im Zentrum vieler Debatten. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit erlangen die Debatten nicht nur dadurch, dass die Vermögen ungleicher verteilt sind als die Einkommen; sondern mit der Verfügbarkeit länderübergreifender Vermögensdaten der Europäischen Zentralbank ist auch der Befund zutage getreten, dass die Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland im ...

Participation in socio-cultural activities and subjective well-being of natives and migrants: evidence from Germany and the UK

Within the diverse populations characterizing the modern society, it is essential to explore the experiences of multicultural individuals and their subjective well-being. The aim of this study is to explore the participation of migrants in socio-cultural activities related to arts, theatre, concerts and sports events and its role in their subjective well-being (SWB). The empirical analysis relies on ...

Ungleichheit der Haushaltsnettoeinkommen – Trends, Treiber, Politikmaßnahmen

Sozioökonomische Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie

Payroll taxation increases inequality at the top

In recent decades, the inequality of household income has increased globally. A common trend is increased income inequality at the top of the distribution. The sources of this trend are a matter of debate. Increased demand for analytical and managerial skills is said to have strongly increased labor incomes at the top. Other scholars have indicated that structural conditions, such as financialization ...

Job Satisfaction Declines in Late Work Life – A Time-to-Retirement Approach

Job satisfaction has previously been found to increase across the life span. However, few studies have focused on the very last years of working life. We applied a time-to-retirement approach to job satisfaction and investigated change in job satisfaction in the ten years before retirement in the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP, n = 2,619). Job satisfaction showed a small non-linear decline as people ...

Analysis of large data sets: Bayesian methods and applications in energy and health economics

The availability of large data sets is increasing dramatically, reshaping decision-making in many domains, such as energy, education and health. Data sets may be large in two dimensions: in the number of observations and in the number of variables. This thesis mainly deals with the first case. Often, large data sets arise as a byproduct of emerging technologies, possibly allowing very detailed measurements ...

Entwicklung von Erwerbstätigkeit, Arbeitszeit ind Arbeitsvolumen nach Geschlecht: Ergebnisse der IAB-Arbeitszeitrechnung nach Alter und Geschlecht (AZR AG) für die Jahre 1991 – 2019

Dieser Forschungsbericht stellt Grundlagen, methodische Weiterentwicklungen sowie ausgewählte Ergebnisse der IAB-Arbeitszeitrechnung nach Alter und Geschlecht(AZR AG) für den Zeitraum 1991 bis 2019 vor. Seit nunmehr fast 20 Jahren berichtet das IAB regelmäßig über die Entwicklung der Erwerbstätigkeit sowie der geleisteten Stunden von Frauen und Männern in Deutschland auf Basis der AZR AG. Diese Datenbasis ...

The Costs and Benefits of Mindfulness and Reappraisal in Daily Life

Reappraisal and mindfulness represent two fundamentally different but interconnected ways of dealing with one’s emotions: whereas reappraisal is aimed at changing one’s thoughts and emotions, mindfulness is aimed at not immediately changing, but appreciating them. Despite this difference, prior research has shown that both are beneficial for one’s affective well-being. However, research on the spontaneous ...