Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers and appear as non-participants. Yet, labour force participation increased because many unregistered-unemployed workers ...

Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes

Immigrants' Identity, Economic Outcomes and the Transmission of Identity across Generations

In this article we address three issues relating to immigrants' identity, measured as the feeling of belonging to particular ethnic groups. We study the formation of identity with home and host countries. We investigate how identity with either country relates to immigrants' and their children's labour market outcomes. Finally, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of identity. ...

Die Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Frankfurt am Main von der Wiedereröffnung nach dem Kriege bis in die 70er Jahre

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Alternde Bevölkerung und Gesundheitsausgaben - Eine theoretische Analyse demographischer Ausgabeneffekte auf den Beitragssatz der GKV

Relevant publications discuss the relation between the demographic process and per-capita health care expenditures (HCE) in a controversial manner. This concerns theory as well as the results of empirical research. Therefore, this paper discusses the influence of an ageing population on HCE in a theoretical framework. It breaks down HCE into three components: time-to-death, morbidity and age structure. ...

Das Saysche Gesetz im Gesundheitswesen: schafft sich das ärztliche Leistungsangebot seine eigene Nachfrage? Eine Analyse zur angebotsinduzierten Nachfrage in der ambulanten ärztlichen Versorgung anhand deutscher Paneldaten

Information asymmetries between patients and physicians may provide the suppliers of medical services with the opportunity to induce demand. The thesis of „supplierinduced demand“ is tested for ambulant services with two German panel data sets. The results show that there is no statistically significant correlation between physician-density and the demand for physician office visits. The implications ...

The Signaling Role of Promotions: New Evidence from European Firms

Using large-scale, nationally-representative, worker and firm-level panel datasets from Finland and Germany, and inferring time-varying, job-specific worker performance measures from bonus data, we provide new empirical evidence supporting the signaling role of promotions. Controlling for performance, promotion probabilities are increasing in educational attainment whereas wage increases from promotion ...

Immigrants, Natives and Social Assistance: Comparable Take-Up Under Comparable Circumstances

Virtual Life Satisfaction

We study life satisfaction data from the 2005 World Values Survey and a 2009 survey of users of the virtual world Second Life. Second Life users do not have the same demographic profile as the general population, but the differences are not as large as we expected. The mechanisms and causes of life satisfaction seem to be similar in the two samples. Among Second Life users, satisfaction with their ...