Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Der Volkswirt: Die Politiker und das Risiko

Spitzenpolitiker sind oft risikofreudiger, als man meint. In der Demokratie wird ihre persönliche Neigung gebremst – zum Glück.

Three Essays on Labor Supply Focusing on Entrepreneurship and Health Insurance

This dissertation consists of three essays analyzing policies that affect different aspects of labor supply. Economists are interested in many different aspects of labor supply decisions, such as whether to participate in the labor market, amount of work conditional on participation and career choice, among others. At the same time, a wide range of policies can impact labor supply such as: tax, immigration, ...

Arbeiter sterben früher als Beamte: Stress frisst Lebensjahre

Wer viel schuftet und trotzdem wenig verdient, hat eine kürzere Lebenserwartung als Gutverdiener und Beamte. Es geht um Jahre.

Culture, children and couple gender inequality

This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany’s division and reunification, I compare child penalties of East Germans who were socialised in a more gender egalitarian culture to West Germans socialised in a gender-traditional culture. Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on the female income share is 23.9 percentage ...

Weiterhin einsam und weniger zufrieden – Die Covid-19-Pandemie wirkt sich im zweiten Lockdown stärker auf das Wohlbefinden aus

Bereits zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie und des ersten Lockdowns wurde vermutet, dass die Krise mit einer starken psychischen Belastung der Bevölkerung einhergehen würde. Im zweiten, deutlich längeren, Lockdown wurden diese Befürchtungen noch größer. Denn viele sahen dadurch die psychische Gesundheit der in Deutschland lebenden Menschen akut bedroht. Wie aktuelle Ergebnisse der SOEP-CoV-Studie zeigen, ...

The Global Lives of German Migrants: Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course

Surveying Across Borders: The Experiences of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (Chapter 2)

International migration is often characterised as a process of immigration from economically less developed to highly developed countries. Whereas the factors driving those flows and the integration of the respective ethnic groups are widely analysed, the international mobility of the populations of precisely those affluent societies is regularly missed and less-frequently studied. The chapter describes ...

Structures of German Emigration and Remigration: Historical Developments and Demographic Patterns (Chapter 3)

Germany today is one of the world’s most important countries of immigration but at the same time a country of emigration. During the last three decades, more than 3.3 million German citizens have left the country whereas 2.5 million have returned. Overall, 3.8 million Germans live outside Germany in another country of the OECD. The chapter analyses basic structures of German emigration and remigration. ...

Settlement or Return? The Intended Permanence of Emigration from Germany Across the Life Course (Chapter 6)

Economic approaches and socio-cultural integration are still the most prominent frameworks applied to explain return migration and permanent settlement. In contrast to the bulk of literature focusing on established migrations from poorer to richer regions, the contribution analyses the permanence of emigration from economically highly developed countries. Based on a life-course approach, it highlights ...

Brain Drain or Brain Circulation? Economic and Non-Economic Factors Driving the International Migration of German Citizens (Chapter 4)

International movements by people from economically highly developed welfare states are a puzzle for the classic canon of migration theories, which generally focus on flows from less to more developed regions. Based on a simple theoretical framework linking largely disparate literatures on international and internal migration as well as the field of global work experience, this chapter provides an ...