Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Great Expectations: Reservation Wages and the Minimum Wage Reform

This paper is the first causal study using quasi-experimental methods to identify the effect of minimum wages on the reservation wages of non-workers. We exploit variation in regional exposure to the introduction of a high-impact minimum wage in Germany in 2015, combined with survey responses about wage acceptance thresholds of job seekers. Results show a 16% increase in reservation wages among non-employed ...

Gender Quotas in the Boardroom: New Evidence from Germany

We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system consisting of the affected supervisory boards and unaffected management boards within the same firm. We find a positive effect on the female share on supervisory ...

Mindestlohn: Nach wie vor erhalten ihn viele anspruchsberechtigte Beschäftigte nicht

Seit gut vier Jahren gilt in Deutschland ein allgemeiner Mindestlohn – doch nach wie vor erhalten ihn viele ArbeitnehmerInnen nicht. Das zeigen neue Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), die die Nichteinhaltung des Mindestlohns für das Jahr 2017 fortschreiben. Demnach wurden selbst bei einer konservativen Schätzung rund 1,3 Millionen anspruchsberechtigte Personen im Rahmen einer ...

Minimum Wage: Many Entitled Employees in Germany Still Do Not Receive It

There has been a universal statutory minimum wage in Germany for a good four years, but many employees still do not receive it. This is the finding of new calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which have updated noncompliance with the minimum wage for 2017. Even conservative calculations indicate that around 1.3 million people who are entitled to the minimum wage receive a lower wage ...

Job Matching in Connected Regional and Occupational Labour Markets

Job mobility equilibrates disparities in local labour markets and influences the job-matching efficiency. We specify a matching function with regional, occupational and combined regional–occupational spillovers of unemployed and vacancies. To construct these spillovers, we use information on regional proximities and occupational similarities. Based on novel German data on new hires, the unemployed ...

Selbstständige Erwerbstätigkeit in Deutschland (Aktualisierung 2020): Kurzexpertise

Die Zahl der Selbstständigen in Deutschland ist seit den 1990er Jahren bis 2012 deutlich gestiegen und stagniert seitdem. Selbstständige verfügen in der Regel über mehr berufliche Autonomie als abhängig Beschäftigte, sind jedoch vergleichsweise höheren Einkommensrisiken ausgesetzt. Diese Risiken können sich, da der Großteil der selbstständig Erwerbstätigen bisher nicht obligatorisch rentenversichert ...

Economic Aspects of Subjective Attitudes towards the German Minimum Wage Reform

Despite some skepticism among experts about the effects of a minimum wage, there is remarkably widespread public support for such policies. Using representative survey data from 2015 and 2016, we investigate the subjective attitudes driving public support for Germany’s recent minimum wage reform. We find that socio-economic characteristics and political orientations explain a minor part of the variation ...

Mindestlohnkontrollen sollten durch Anreize für Arbeitgeber ergänzt werden : Interview

A Tale of Two Countries - A Comparison of Unemployment Spells in the United Kingdom and Germany

On the Economics and Biology of Trust

In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the identification of the exact role of trust in economic interactions has proven to be elusive. It is still not clear whether trust is just an epiphenomenon of good ...