Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and the Incidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe: 1995-2001

The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe

Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. The countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. I find that among men the wage premium ...

Schnelles Denken, Langsames Denken (Chapter 38: Lebenszufriedenheit)

Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being

People do not adapt to income changes: A re-evaluation of the dynamic effects of (reference) income on life satisfaction with GSOEP and UKHLS data

Do people adapt to changes in income? This paper shows that there is no evidence of adaptation to income in GSOEP (1984-2015) and UKHLS (1996-2015) data. Following the empirical approach of Vendrik (2013), I arrive at this surprising answer by estimating (dynamic) life satisfaction equations, in which I simultaneously enter contemporaneous and lagged terms for a respondent’s own household income and ...

Zuwanderer und Ausländer in Deutschland (Teil II, Kap. 14)

Die Vereinbarkeit von häuslicher Pflege und Beruf (Dissertation)

Rettet den Kapitalismus! Wie Deutschland wieder an die Spitze kommt (Kapitel 6)

Triggers and determinants of severe household indebtedness in Germany

The phenomenon of overindebted private households has created economic and political concern, also in Germany. Using measures of relative (over-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence level, this paper investigates the question whether severe household indebtedness is mainly driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, ...

Who feels constrained by high debt burdens? Subjective vs. objective measures of household debt

This paper analyzes differences in self-assessed debt burdens of German households confronted with an objective debt burden. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, my econometric analysis shows that a household's subjective debt burden is not only influenced by the current constellation of income, debt service and, possibly, the potential subsistence level, but also by expectations of ...