Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage

We investigate the wage, employment, and reallocation effects of the introduction of a nationwide minimum wage in Germany that affected 15% of all employees. Based on identification designs that exploit variation in exposure across individuals and local areas, we find that the minimum wage raised wages but did not lower employment. It also led to the reallocation of low-wage workers from smaller to ...

Calculating Gross Hourly Wages – the (Structure of) Earnings Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel in Comparison

The statutory minimum wage in Germany was set as an hourly wage. Thus, valid information on gross hourly wages must be calculated from monthly wages and weekly working hours. This paper compares the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the (Structure of) Earnings Survey (SES/ES). The sampling and collection of data on employees in the household survey GSOEP, and on jobs in the administrative surveys ...

The effect of informal caregiving on social capital investments

Social capital is a resource derived from a person's social network and is important for various outcomes. Social capital declines over time and requires investments to avoid further declines or to increase the stock. However, certain life events can negatively affect social capital. This paper analyzes how informal caregiving, defined as unpaid assistance to persons who cannot perform the usual ...

Partner market opportunities and union formation over the life course—A comparison of different measures

Abstract Even in the online dating era, individuals will seek intimate partners who live physically nearby. This paper considers the validity of different partner market measures in German NUTS-3 regions; the often used sex ratio is contrasted with different versions of the availability ratio (AR) and versions of the partner market density (PMD). The paper discusses (a) how conceptional aspects of ...

Trouble on my mind: the effect of catastrophic events on people’s worries

Major economic, environmental, or social shocks induce uncertainty, which in turn may impact economic development and may require institutional change. Based on the idea that catastrophic events (CEs) affect people’s perceptions of reality and judgments about the future, this paper analyzes the effect of CEs on people’s worries in terms of social, economic, and environmental issues. In particular, ...

What Comes after Caring? The Impact of Family Care on Women’s Employment

Previous research has shown that women providing family care tend to decrease paid work. We take the opposite perspective and examine how current and previous family care tasks influence women’s likelihood to (re-)enter employment or to increase working hours. Family care is defined as caring for an ill, disabled or frail elderly partner, parent, or other family member. Using German Socio-Economic ...

Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility

Retired parents might invest time in their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on the fertility of their adult children. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and their adult children. We exploit eligibility ages ...

Kirchentage, Kirchenbesuche und Kinderzahl

Arbeitsbelastung und Gesundheit von Erwerbstätigen mit Migrationshintergrund

Hintergrund und Ziel der Arbeit: Diversität nimmt auch bei Erwerbstätigen zu. Traditionelle Ansätze des betrieblichen Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutzes reichen meist nicht aus, um den damit einhergehenden Herausforderungen zu begegnen. Auch fehlt es derzeit an Wissen über spezifische Bedarfslagen, um adäquate Interventionen unter Einbindung von Erwerbstätigen mit Migrationshintergrund zu entwickeln. ...

Gendered Time Allocation and Divorce: A Longitudinal Analysis of German and American Couples

Objective To examine the association between divorce and partners' allocation of paid and unpaid work, and change over a few key decades in both West Germany and the United States. Background Past research has indicated that partner similarity in time spent on both paid and unpaid work is associated with a higher risk of marital dissolution. We explore whether the association between paid work ...