Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Corona Monitoring Nationwide (RKI-SOEP-2): Seroepidemiological Study on the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Across Germany

SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus, spread across Germany within just a short period of time. Seroepidemiological studies are able to estimate the proportion of the population with antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 infection (seroprevalence) as well as the level of undetected infections, which are not captured in official figures. In the seroepidemiological study Corona Monitoring Nationwide (RKI-SOEP-2), biospecimens ...

The Labor Market, Inequality, and Health: Four Empirical Essays

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus vier Kapiteln, die Beiträge zu den Gebieten der Arbeitsmarktökonomie, der Ungleichheitsforschung und der Gesundheitsökonomie liefern. Das erste Kapitel untersucht die den Zusammenhang zwischen der räumlichen Verteilung von Arbeitsmarktkontrollen und Verstößen gegen den gesetzlichen Mindestlohn in Deutschland. Dazu kombiniert es neue administrative Daten zu Arbeitsmarktkontrollen ...

Out for Good: Labor Market Effects of Transitory and Persistent Health Shocks

Health shocks limit individuals’ participation in the labor market and pose a major risk to household welfare. In this paper, we derive two novel health shock indicators using machine learning based on sick days and hospitalizations: one for transitory and one for persistent shocks. In an event study framework, we show their respective effects on employment, yearly working hours, and labor earnings, ...

Immigrants and Trade Union Membership: Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?

We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel, our empirical analysis confirms a unionization gap for first-generation immigrants in Germany. Importantly, ...

Changes in Working Hours Are Driving Earnings Inequality

According to Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, inequality in gross monthly earnings in Germany increased significantly between 1993 and 2003 and has been stagnating at a high level since 2008. As this Weekly Report shows, the increase is not being driven by higher hourly wage inequality, but rather by working hours: In recent years, employees with a high hourly wage work more than previously compared ...

Entwicklung der Arbeitszeiten treibt die Ungleichheit der Erwerbseinkommen

Die Ungleichheit der monatlichen Bruttoerwerbseinkommen der Beschäftigten in Deutschland ist laut Sozio-oekonomischem Panel (SOEP) zwischen 1993 und 2003 signifikant gestiegen und stagniert seit 2008 auf relativ hohem Niveau. Wie dieser Bericht zeigt, liegt der Anstieg weniger an einer höheren Ungleichheit der Stundenlöhne, sondern daran, dass diese zunehmend mit der Arbeitszeit korrelieren: Beschäftigte ...

Unter- und Überbeschäftigung ist sozialpolitisch problematisch: Interview

Health Returns to Education Across the Life Course: Measuring Health in Children and Adolescents in the National Educational Panel Study

Health is an important non-monetary outcome of education surveyed by the National Education Panel Study (NEPS). In addition to its effects in adulthood (see Lettau et al., 2020), the interplay between education and health also plays a role for children and adolescents. For this reason, the NEPS provides longitudinal data on various aspects of health, education, relevant control variables, and mechanisms ...

Non-Standard Employment and Partnership Dissolution: A Comparison of Nonmarital Cohabitations and Marriages

This paper investigates the link between non-standard employment (NSE) and the risk of partnership dissolution, applying event history analysis to data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey for the period 2001–2016. It moves beyond previous studies by (a) considering a broader range of employment types, including fixed-term ...

Political implications of ‘green’ infrastructure in one’s ‘backyard’: the Green Party’s Catch 22?

A clean environment is a public good, with the benefits shared by all. While most individuals can agree on the need to implement green policies, we argue that the cost-benefit calculation is quite different depending on where one lives. Those individuals living in places where green infrastructure is infeasible, such as cities, can advocate for green technologies knowing that the chance of having to ...