Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Cross-national differences in determinants of multiple deprivation in Europe

This paper analyses the relationship between deprivation, income and other individual dimensions over time, in eleven European countries, exploiting the longitudinal nature of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). First, the determinants of deprivation are analysed by using individual fixed effects models for each country separately. Second, a decomposition of the deprivation gaps between ...

Coverage and Adequacy of Minimum Income Schemes in the European Union

The purpose of this paper is to explore and compare the effectiveness of Minimum Income (MI) schemes in protecting people of working age from poverty in the European Union. Using the EU-wide microsimulation model EUROMOD, we investigate (a) coverage and (b) adequacy of MI schemes in 18 countries. In contrast to previous comparative studies of MI benefits, relying on comparisons of the effects on stylised ...

Inequalities Within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe

This paper explores the effects of tax and benefit systems on differences in income and incentives to earn income within couples in nine member countries of the European Union. The comparative perspective allows us to establish the relative effects of different policy regimes, given the characteristics of each national population, using a consistent approach and set of incidence assumptions across ...

Using the EU-SILC for policy Simulation: prospects, some limitations and suggestions

Measuring the size and impact of public cash support for children in cross-national perspective

We suggest a new comprehensive measure of support given through tax-benefit systems to families with children. Using microsimulation techniques, this accounts for all provisions contingent on the presence of children, while usually only gross child/family benefits are considered. We use EUROMOD, the European Union tax-benefit microsimulation model, to quantify the support for children and analyse its ...

Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income

Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the longstanding arguments recommending its inclusion in the tax base, on both equity and efficiency grounds. The current fiscal crisis revived interest towards this form of taxation. The paper investigates the fiscal and distributional consequences of including homeowners’ imputed rent, net of mortgage interest and maintenance ...

Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control

Evidence of Illusion of Control – the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events – is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to no support. In this paper we test whether this dissonant result across disciplines is due to the fact that economists have implemented only one form of illusory control. We identify and separately tests ...

Generation Y im Sport: Eine quantitative Analyse der Verhaltensweise einer neuen Generation und deren Auswirkungen auf die Sportvereinslandschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (master thesis)

Flexibilisierung von Erwerbsarbeit - Defizite sozialstaatlicher Absicherung: Österreich, Deutschland, Großbritannien und Dänemark im Vergleich

Studie: Einführung eines Sozialversicherungsfreibetrags könnte Gering- und Mittelverdiener entlasten

Wissenschaftler der Freien Universität haben einen Vorschlag zur Entlastung von Personen mit geringem oder mittlerem Einkommen über einen Sozialversicherungsfreibetrag vorgelegt. Wie Benjamin Fischer, Robin Jessen und Prof. Dr. Viktor Steiner berechneten, könnte die Einführung eines Sozialversicherungsfreibeitrags von 350 Euro monatlich bei gleichzeitiger Abschaffung von sogenannten Mini- und Midijobs ...