Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Europäisierung oder Globalisierung von Ungleichheit? Determinanten für Einkommensungleichheit in den Mitgliedsländern der EU 1993-2007

The topic income inequality has recently attracted a lot of attention as a result of increasing inequalities in a number of OECD countries. As reasons for this increase it is often referred the process of globalization. A lot less attention has been given to another process of economic integration – the process of European integration. One exception is the study of the American sociologist Jason Beckfield ...

Believe In A Just Wage? The Effect Of Personality On Labour Market Outcomes

This paper examines the impact of students' non-cognitive skills locus of control and self-esteem on their decision to enroll at college, and on their wages once they enter the labour market. We extend previous research in several ways: a model of belief formation suggests a pathway by which these traits affect economic outcomes and allows to derive testable predictions concerning individuals' ...

On the Misery of Losing Self-employment

German Socio-Economic Panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces selfemployed workers’ satisfaction considerably more than salaried workers’ satisfaction. These results indicate that losing self-employment is ...

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Using German panel data, we show that unemployed people are, on average, less satisfied with their life than employed people, but they report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction upon retirement. We interpret this finding using identity theory. Retirement raises the identity utility of the unemployed because it changes the social norms they are supposed to adhere to. The social norm for ...

Looking Back in Anger? Retirement and Unemployment Scarring

Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as worsened working conditions, or increased future uncertainty as regards income and employment. Using German panel data, we identify non-employment-related ...

Income in Jeopardy: How Losing Employment Affects the Willingness to Take Risks

Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing one’s job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in previous hourly wage, begins to manifest itself as soon as an employee perceives the threat of job loss and is ...

Mindestlohn, Einkommensverteilung und Armutsrisiko

Eine Analyse der Lohnschichtung auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels zeigt, dass ein Mindestlohn in Höhe von 8,50 Euro je Stunde 19 Prozent aller abhängig Beschäftigten tangieren würde – ein im europäischen Vergleich sehr hoher Wert. Besonders betroffen wären Frauen mit einem Anteil von 24 Prozent, geringfügig Beschäftigte (63 Prozent) und Arbeitnehmer unter 25 Jahre (50 Prozent). Auch arbeitsplatzbezogene ...

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Arm durch Arbeitslosigkeit? Einkommensverluste und Armut im Kontext der Hartz-Reformen

Der Beitrag untersucht, ob sich das Risiko, durch Arbeitslosigkeit in Armut zu geraten, infolge der Hartz-Reformen vergrçßert hat. Eine gestiegene Armutsquote in der Gruppe der Arbeitslosen im Zeitverlauf deutet darauf hin, dass Arbeitslosigkeit seit den Hartz-Reformen ein grçßeres Armutsrisiko zur Folge hat. Die hier durchgeführten Analysen auf Basis von Längsschnittdaten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels ...