Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Entscheidungen brauchen orientierendes Wissen - Erfahrungen mit der Umfrageforschung an Beispielen

A Note on Inequality Aversion Across Countries, Using Two New Measures

Studies using the Gini Index as a measure of income inequality have consistently found a positive and significant effect of the Gini on both happiness and life satisfaction. Two new measures used here – the ratio of persons in the lowest income decile relative to the number in the highest, and the ratio of the number in the lowest social class relative to the number in the highest, in a given country ...

Are Regional Differences in Utility Eliminated over Time? Evidence from Germany

Hedonic theory assumes that changes in land prices and wage rates eliminate the utility advantages of differing locations. Using happiness data from the German socio-economic panel this paper empirically tests whether regional utility differences exist and if so whether utility levels show any tendency to converge over time. Empirical analysis reveals substantial differences in utility over different ...

Intergenerational transmission of unemployment - evidence for German sons

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment outcomes. In agreement with most ...

Eine ökonometrische Analyse der Liquiditätsbeschränkung deutscher Haushalte im Lichte der US-Immobilienkrise

In dieser Arbeit kommt ein neuer ökonometrischer Ansatz für Paneldaten zum Einsatz, welcher den Umgang mit persistenter, unbeobachtbarer Heterogenität in allgemeinen nichtseparablen und nonparametrischen Konstellationen ermöglicht. Der Ansatz geht zurück auf Hoderlein und White (2009). Diese untersuchen für die USA, welchen Einfluss marginale Einkommenszuwächse auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit, Wohneigentum ...

Rebound Effects in German Residential Heating: Do Ownership and Income Matter?

In this paper, by using panel data and a fixed effects model, we estimate the direct rebound effect related to space heating in German residential households. The data used are from a representative repeated survey among some 11,000 households in Germany provided by the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin). We find that for the size of the direct rebound effect, i.e. the amount of energy ...

Lebenssituation von Geflüchteten

Arbeitsmarktergebnisse und berufliche Ziele der Generation Y im Vergleich zur Generation X

Junge Menschen der Jahrgänge 1980 bis 1995, in der medialen Berichterstattung häufig als Generation Y oder Millennials bezeichnet, steigen in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in das Berufsleben ein. Ihnen wird von manchem Beobachter unterstellt, dass sie andere berufliche Ziele verfolgen würden und andere Vorstellungen hätten als vergleichbare Altersgruppen in den Vorgängergenerationen. Unternehmen müssten ...

Number of Siblings and Educational Choices of Immigrant Children: Evidence from First- and Second-Generation Immigrants

We document the educational integration of immigrant children in France and Germany with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher education track attendance ...

Lifestyles - a relevant segmentation tool for the analysis of the socio-residential organisation?