Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Pathways into Self-Employment in the United States and Germany

Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel, this research compares pathways into self-employment among men and women in the United States and Western Germany. Academic and vocational credentials are more important for stabilizing self-employment in the United States than in Germany, where the lack of credentials is a significant deterrent to ...

Married Women’s Work Trajectories and Income Inequality in Germany, Great Britain and the United States

We investigate the impact of married women's breadwinner roles on income inequality in the United States, Germany and Britain. We use longitudinal data and fixed effects time series with lagged endogenous panel regression models to investigate the evolution of couples work careers and women’s earnings in the first five years following union formation. Results from these models are then used to ...

Wage Penalty for Motherhood in Context: Economic Consequences of Motherhoode in the United States and Germany

Women earn less than men, and among women, mothers earn less than non-mothers. Recent evidence reaffirms the importance of parenthood in accounting for the persistent gender gap in earnings in the United States, but the mechanisms that account for this gap are not undisputed, and the wage penalty for motherhood remains poorly understood. Against this background, the paper examines wage penalties for ...

Arianna Huffington warnt: „Wir haben nur noch Stress und Überlastung“

Forscher und Technikunternehmer wollen uns im Schlaf produktiver machen. So ließe sich enormer Wohlstand zusätzlich erwirtschaften. Arianna Huffington warnt vor dem Angriff auf unseren Schlaf.

Economic Growth and Income Inequalities (Chapter 6)

Besprechung: Rendtel, Ulrich und Wagner, Gert Lebenslagen im Wandel. Zur Einkommensdynamik in Deutschland seit 1984

Emotions, Risk Attitudes, and Patience

Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people’s emotions over time predicts changes in preferences. Using a large panel data set, I find that within-person changes in happiness, anger, and fear have substantial effects on risk attitudes and patience. Robustness ...

Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?

Thüringer Kindersozialbericht

Grundstruktur eines universellen Alterssicherungssystems mit Mindestrente