Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Sozioökonomische Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie

Payroll taxation increases inequality at the top

In recent decades, the inequality of household income has increased globally. A common trend is increased income inequality at the top of the distribution. The sources of this trend are a matter of debate. Increased demand for analytical and managerial skills is said to have strongly increased labor incomes at the top. Other scholars have indicated that structural conditions, such as financialization ...

Job Satisfaction Declines in Late Work Life – A Time-to-Retirement Approach

Job satisfaction has previously been found to increase across the life span. However, few studies have focused on the very last years of working life. We applied a time-to-retirement approach to job satisfaction and investigated change in job satisfaction in the ten years before retirement in the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP, n = 2,619). Job satisfaction showed a small non-linear decline as people ...

Analysis of large data sets: Bayesian methods and applications in energy and health economics

The availability of large data sets is increasing dramatically, reshaping decision-making in many domains, such as energy, education and health. Data sets may be large in two dimensions: in the number of observations and in the number of variables. This thesis mainly deals with the first case. Often, large data sets arise as a byproduct of emerging technologies, possibly allowing very detailed measurements ...

Comparing the Risk Attitudes of Internationally Mobile and Non-Mobile Germans (Chapter 5)

Moving–particularly to a new country–is fraught with risks as migrants leave familiar legal frameworks and cultural institutions behind them. To date, little is known about the psychological determinants of international migration. This chapter helps to fill this gap by analysing data from the first wave of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) in combination with data on non-mobile ...

Lebenssituationen älterer Geflüchteter in Deutschland

Out of Sight, out of Mind? Frequency of Emigrants’ Contact with Friends in Germany and its Impact on Subjective Well-Being (Chapter 13)

Migration implies both benefits and costs. The latter include a possible breakdown of social networks, and thus a loss of social capital. Although there is some literature on the evolution of family networks after migration, not as much is known about friendship. This article assesses the quality of friendships between German emigrants and their friends who stayed in Germany. In particular, it asks ...

Trends and equity in the use of health services in Spain and Germany around austerity in Europe

Background: Following the 2008 economic crisis many countries implemented austerity policies, including reducing public spending on health services. This paper evaluates the trends and equity in the use of health services during and after that period in Spain – a country with austerity policies – and in Germany – a country without restriction on healthcare spending. Methods: Data from several National ...

Increasing longevity and life satisfaction: is there a catch to living longer?

Human longevity is rising rapidly all over the world, but are longer lives more satisfied lives? This study suggests that the answer might be no. Despite a substantial increase in months of satisfying life, people’s overall life satisfaction declined between 1985 and 2011 in West Germany due to substantial losses of life satisfaction in old age. When compared to 1985, in 2011, elderly West Germans ...

Gesellschaftliche und regionale Bedeutung von Daseinsvorsorge sowie der Versorgung mit Dienstleistungen und Infrastruktur

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die gesellschaftliche und regionale Bedeutung der Versorgung mit Dienstleistungen und Infrastruktur. In einem ersten Teil werden die Inanspruchnahme und Verteilungswirkungen staatlicher Dienstleistungen auf Basis der aktuellen Welle des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels analysiert. Der Fokus liegt auf dem aktuellen Rand (2017), daneben wird die Entwicklung von 2005-2017 nachgezeichnet. ...