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The IAB’s Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are the two data sets most commonly used to analyze wage inequality in Germany. While the SIAB is based on administrative reports by employers to the social security system, the SOEP is a survey data set in which respondents self-report their wages. Both data sources have their specific advantages and ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
57 (2023), 1, 8
| Heiko Stüber, Markus M. Grabka, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Return migration intentions are complex and are not necessarily followed by future return migration. Our study compares successful return or repeated migration with self-declared return intentions. We take advantage of the latest German Socio-Economic Panel survey dropout studies and fieldwork to observe a wider return migration window than reported in the literature to answer the question of whether ...
In:
International Migration
62 (2024), 3, 73-99
| Hend Sallam
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Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the market share of the Federal Employment Agency as job intermediary declined after the Hartz reforms. We propose ...
In:
IMF Economic Review
72 (2024), 393–440
| Christian Merkl, Timo Sauerbier
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Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and benefactors of welfare and asks how the public perception of the rich and the poor drives redistributive preferences. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1182)
| Matthias Diermeier, Madeleine L. Fischer, Judith Niehues
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The 2022 natural gas price spikes across Europe raised concerns regarding their distributional consequences. This paper investigates the distributional effect of price increases between and, in particular, within different income groups in Germany, accounting for different determinants of gas expenditures. The study finds that low-income households are affected the most by the gas price increase. Low-income ...
In:
Energy Policy
175 (2023), 113472
| Mats Kröger, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff, Franziska Schütze
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Diese Dissertation untersucht das Ausmaß der Spendenbereitschaft für Flüchtlinge und dessen individuelle sowie kontextuelle Korrelate unter einheimischen Deutschen zwischen Jahren 2015 und 2018. Die Dissertation enthält drei originäre empirische Beiträge. Im ersten empirischen Beitrag wird das Ausmaß des Spendenverhaltens für Flüchtlinge, seine regionale Variation und Veränderung im Zeitverlauf beschrieben. ...
2022,
| Zbignev Gricevic
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Der Ausbau hin zu einem flächendeckenden Ganztagsangebot für Grundschüler*innen seit 2003 zielte darauf ab, Chancengleichheit zu fördern. Empirische Analysen auf Basis administrativer Schuldaten aus sechs westdeutschen Bundesländern und dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) zeigen nun wichtige Muster der Wirkungen von Ganztagsschulen auf: Kinder aus sozio-ökonomisch benachteiligten Verhältnissen, insbesondere ...
In:
DIW Wochenbericht
89 (2022), 48, 635-642
| Laura Schmitz
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Objectives: Our research provides competing hypotheses and empirical evidence how associations between objectively social isolation and subjective loneliness differ between host populations, migrants, and refugees. Methods: The analysis uses data of 25,171 participants from a random sample of the German population (SOEP v.35). We estimate regression models for the host population, migrants, and refugees ...
In:
International Journal of Public Health
67 (2022), 1604576
| Lea-Maria Löbel, Hannes Kröger, Ana Nanette Tibubos
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Over the course of the 20th century, governments have frequently used rent control to keep rents affordable, especially in times of crisis when housing is scarce. Existing research shows that rent control has undesirable side effects, such as overall societal welfare losses, market misallocation, a declining housing supply, and lower mobility. However, there has been little research examining the effect ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
12 (2022), 12, 87-95
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl
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Das Instrument kann nur erfolgreich sein, wenn die Regeln eingehalten werden. Der Gastbeitrag von Johannes Seebauer, Arbeitsmarktökonom am DIW Berlin.
In:
Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) online, 2022-03-24
(2022),
| Johannes Seebauer