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We consider a model in which a principal may delegate the choice of a project to a better informed agent. The preferences of the agent and the principal about which project should be undertaken may be discordant. Moreover, the agent benefits from being granted more discretion in the project choice and may be motivated by reciprocity. We find that the relationship between the agent’s reciprocity and ...
In:
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
35 (2019), 3, 651-695
| Alessandro De Chiara, Ester Manna
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Using large-scale data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds that financial professionals have a lower prosociality and riskier behavior than a control group. I interpret these findings using the person-organization fit theory, and thus, the compatibility between the employee’s personality and the prevailing culture in their organization. The financial sector attracts riskier individuals, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1075)
| Max Deter
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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 ...
In:
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
137 (2022), 1, 267–328
| Christian Dustmann, Attila Lindner, Uta Schönberg, Matthias Umkehrer, Philipp vom Berge
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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 ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
239 (2019), 2, 243-276
| Matthias Dütsch, Ralf Himmelreicher, Clemens Ohlert
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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 ...
In:
Social Science Research
85 (2020), January 2020, 102319
| Andreas Eberl
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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 ...
In:
Population, Space and Place
25 (2019), 4, e2178
| Jan Eckhard, Johannes Stauder
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The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and conduct a difference-in-difference analysis to investigate couples’ behavioral responses to the reform. In ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
17 (2019), 4, 1191-1223
| Julia Bredtmann, Christina Vonnahme
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Basierend auf Auswertungen repräsentativer Umfragedaten zeigt dieser Wochenbericht, dass sich Frauen und Männer in ihren Erwartungen über Lohnentwicklungen deutlich unterscheiden, vor allem bezüglich ihrer langfristigen Erwartungen (über zehn Jahre). Die stärksten geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede treten für die Gruppe der jungen Befragten mit hohem Bildungsabschluss auf, die geschlechtsübergreifend ...
In:
DIW Wochenbericht
87 (2020), 10, 153-158
| Christoph Breuning, Iuliia Grabova, Peter Haan, Felix Weinhardt, Georg Weizsäcker
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Germany did not establish a statutory minimum wage until 2015. The new wage floor was set at an initial level of €8.50 per hour. When it was introduced, about 11 percent of German employees earned less than that amount. Based on descriptive figures, qualitative research and difference-in-differences analyses, we provide an overview of the available evidence regarding some of the topics that have attracted ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
53 (2019), 1, 10
| Oliver Bruttel
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Vor Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns in Deutschland gab es eine Reihe von Prognosen zu den möglichen Beschäftigungseffekten. Entgegen dem damals herrschenden Konsens haben die inzwischen vorliegenden empirischen Analysen nur begrenzte negative Beschäftigungseffekte identifiziert. Nach einer Gegenüberstellung von Prognosen und empirischen Evaluationsstudien erörtern die Autoren mögliche Gründe ...
In:
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
20 (2019), 3, 237
| Oliver Bruttel, Arne Baumann, Matthias Dütsch