Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Ehegatten- und Kindesunterhalt nach Trennung und Scheidung - Ein Vergleich rechtlicher Ansprüche mit tatsächlichen Zahlungen anhand der Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) in den Jahren 1984-1999 (Diplomarbeit)

The European Community Household Panel: A review

Health, aging and retirement in Europe: A cross-country comparison using the CHER data base

Do Marriage and Cohabitation Provide Benefits to Health in Mid-Life? The Role of Childhood Selection Mechanisms and Partnership Characteristics Across Countries

Extensive research has found that marriage provides health benefits to individuals, particularly in the U.S. The rise of cohabitation, however, raises questions about whether simply being in an intimate co-residential partnership conveys the same health benefits as marriage. Here, we use OLS regression to compare differences between partnered and unpartnered, and cohabiting and married individuals ...

Wage changes through job mobility in Europe: A multinomial endogenous switching approach

Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Haushaltsstrukturen auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland (Diplomarbeit)

Inequality in Germany. The Role of Household Context and the Concept of Economic Resources (Dissertation)

Economic inequality has increased considerably in many Western countries and has recently received increasing attention. The gap between rich and poor is now one of the main issues on the policy agendas and is potentially harmful for public welfare when it exceeds a certain threshold. That is why many policy makers are concerned with increasing levels of inequality. Economists should, therefore, provide ...

Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples’ labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of observed and randomly matched couples are compared to each other. Earnings of hypothetical couples are adjusted ...

Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany

This paper examines the effect of marital sorting on earnings inequality, taking into account extensive and intensive margin labour supply choices. Using German microdata, the observed distribution of couples’ earnings is compared to a counterfactual of random matches. In West Germany, marital sorting is found to be disequalizing only after adjusting for labour supply. This means that positive sorting ...

Ist eine Glättung des Mittelstandsbauchs finanzierbar? Eine Mikrosimulationsstudie

Eine steuerliche Entlastung der Mittelschicht durch eine Abflachung des Einkommensteuertarifs wird immer wieder von der Politik gefordert. Wir führen eine Mikrosimulation einer solchen Reform durch und analysieren die Effekte auf Fiskus, Beschäftigung und Ungleichheit. Die zu erwartenden massiven Steuerausfälle machen flankierende Maßnahmen erforderlich. Unsere Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass es kaum politisch ...