Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Feminisation of Poverty in 12 Welfare States: Strengthening Cross-Regime Variations?

The feminisation of poverty is said to have become a common feature in the majority of advanced welfare states, but it is equally true that there has been significant variation in the feminisation of poverty from one country to another. While the concept of the feminisation of poverty remains controversial, there have been very few attempts to reveal a detailed picture from a comparative perspective. ...

The effects of public pensions on private wealth: evidence on the German savings puzzle

Based on German panel data between 1984 and 1999, we test for the interaction of social security benefits and private wealth formation. In a simple life-cylce model benefits from public pension systems should displace equal amounts of private retirement accumulation. Our estimate for the offset effect, corrected for several possible measurement biases, is much lower, however, than expected from pure ...

Utility and Happiness

A Level Playing Field – An Optimal Weighting Scheme of Dismissal Protection Characteristics

In collective redundancies, employers are forced to regard certain characteristics when deciding who to dismiss. This paper develops a procedure to derive an empirical-based weighting scheme between protection characteristics in Germany (age, disability, dependencies, and tenure). Up to now, an objective weighting scheme is missing, and employers bargain with employee's representatives about the ...

Sons' Unexpected Long Term Scarring due to Fathers' Unemployment

This study focuses on the long term effects of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in a family context for 17-24 year old sons living with at least one parent, using data from the German SOEP. As fathers enter unemployment, sons‘ subjective wellbeing is not only reduced immediately, but also 5 years into the future. As this future reduction remains unexpected by the sons, this suggests even higher ...

Unexpected Victims: How Parents’ Unemployment Affects Their Children’s Life Satisfaction

The effects of unemployment on the subjective wellbeing (SWB) of the unemployed on the unemployed are well documented. Using data from the German SOEP for 17-25 year olds living with their parents, this paper examines the additional indirect effects of parents’ unemployment on their children’s subjective wellbeing in an attempt to capture the full impact of unemployment. The reason for entry (exogenous ...

Verschuldung der privaten Haushalte in der Krise nicht erhöht

Das Verschuldungsverhalten der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland hat sich durch die jüngste Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise nicht wesentlich geändert. Der Anteil von Haushalten mit Konsumenten- oder Immobilienkrediten war 2009 niedriger als während der „Dotcom-Krise“ um die Jahrtausendwende, und auch die monatliche Belastung mit Zins- und Tilgungszahlungen lag deutlich unter dem damaligen Niveau. Dies ...

Skewed, Persistent and High before Death: Medical Spending in Germany

We use claims panel data from a big German private health insurer to provide detailed individual-level evidence on medical spending between 2005 and 2011. This includes evidence on the distribution of medical spending, the dependence of medical spending on age and other demographic characteristics, its persistence, and how medical spending evolves in the years before death. Our main findings are that ...

Fast Methods for Jackknifing Inequality Indices

The jackknife is a resampling method that uses subsets of the original database by leaving out one observation at a time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only a few passes through the data. The number of passes is independent of the number of observations. Hence, the method provides an efficient way to obtain standard ...

Geschlechtstypische Unterschiede in den Berufspräferenzen deutscher Jugendlicher

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss von Eltern und Geschwistern auf eine geschlechtstypische Berufspräferenz von 17-jährigen Mädchen und Jungen. Anhand von Daten des SOEP werden die Geschlechtstypik des Berufes der Eltern, das monatliche Äquivalenzeinkommen sowie die Anzahl und das Geschlecht der Geschwister in der Analyse berücksichtigt. Es zeigt sich, dass sich vor allem Mädchen ...