Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

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Individual Wealth and Subjective Financial Well-being in Marriage: Resource Integration or Separation?

Economic wealth is mostly assumed to be a household-level resource that is pooled by spouses in married couples. Using comprehensive data on the individual wealth of both spouses in married couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 13,623 individuals), the author tests this assumption. To this end, the associations between individuals' wealth and their spouses' wealth with individuals' ...

The Marriage Wealth Premium Revisited: Gender Disparities and Within-Individual Changes in Personal Wealth in Germany

This study examines the association between marriage and economic wealth of women and men. Going beyond previous research that focused on household wealth, I examine personal wealth, which allows identifying gender disparities in the association between marriage and wealth. Using unique data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, and 2012), I apply random-effects and fixed-effects ...

Fewer Siblings, More Wealth? Sibship Size and Wealth Attainment

This study examines the association between sibship size and wealth in adulthood. The study draws on resource dilution theory and additionally discusses potentially wealth-enhancing consequences of having siblings. Data from the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP, N = 3502 individuals) are used to estimate multilevel regression models adjusted for concurrent parental wealth and other important ...

Homeownership, saving and financial wealth: a comparative and longitudinal analysis

AbstractThe finding that homeowners own more non-housing wealth than tenants is well known. We examine whether the higher financial wealth of owners can be partly explained with increases in saving when becoming a homeowner in two distinct institutional contexts. Using longitudinal data for the UK (British Household Panel Survey) and Germany (Socio-Economic Panel Study), we find that homeowners save ...

Parenthood, Gender, and Personal Wealth

This study examines the association between parenthood and the growth of personal wealth of women and men over time. We argue that parenthood creates unique restrictions and opportunity structures for mothers and fathers in terms of personal wealth accumulation. Using rich data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (2002, 2007, 2012; N = 28,650 individuals), we apply random-effects growth curve ...

Falling Out of Love and Down the Housing Ladder: A Longitudinal Analysis of Marital Separation and Home Ownership

We analyse the interdependence between marital separation and home ownership. Past research showed that separations reduce the likelihood of owning a home. We add to this literature by allowing partners to be aware of the risk of separation in our empirical analysis. We analyse (i) residential moves to owned and rented dwellings and (ii) the selection processes between ownership and separation. We ...

Mindestlohn: Diskussion mit grotesken Zügen

Der Mindestlohn kommt – so viel scheint nach den jüngsten Runden der Koalitionsverhandlungen sicher. Warnungen vor negativen Folgen für den Arbeitsmarkt werden von den Befürwortern eines Mindestlohns beiseitegeschoben, ohne dass sie bislang den Nachweis erbracht hätten, dass der Mindestlohn „Arm trotz Arbeit“ gezielt bekämpft. Es bleibt zu hoffen, dass die künftigen Regierungspartner zumindest bei ...

Arbeit und Fairness. Die Suche nach dem gerechten Lohn

Das deutsche Mindestlohngesetz: Eine erste ökonomische Bewertung

Von der Einführung eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohns zum 1. Januar 2015 dürften etwa 13,7 Prozent aller Arbeitnehmer – das sind 4,6 Millionen – betroffen sein. Im Osten sind fast doppelt so viele Arbeitnehmer betroffen wie im Westen. Um die Eingriffsintensität auf das westdeutsche Niveau zu senken, dürfte der Mindestlohn im Osten lediglich 7,00 Euro je Stunde betragen. Der Mindestlohn bedeutet demnach ...