Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Kompression oder Expansion der Morbidität? (Kapitel 2.5)

Relative Income, Labour Supply, and Home Production

A weighty issue revisited: the dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany

We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous findings, our dynamic models indicate an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages. As the implied maximum occurs in the ‘overweight’ category, the positive trend in weight may not yet constitute a major limitation to productivity. ...

A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets: Before and After Unification

Glücksatlas 2017 - "Haben überall Anlass, zufrieden zu sein"

A Macroeconomic Model for the Evaluation of Labor Market Reforms

The empirical literature documents a substantial and rising amount of labor income risk, in particular, employment risk. In most countries, the government provides insurance against this type of risk through the payment of unemployment benefits. Other things being equal, the provision of unemployment insurance increases the welfare of risk-averse households. However, unemployment benefits also discourage ...

Labor Market Risk in Germany

This paper uses annual data drawn from the GSOEP to estimate individual earnings risk (labor market risk) in Germany for the period 1983-2012. The econometric specification of the earnings process allows for transitory shocks and permanent shocks to individual earnings. We find that both the transitory component and the permanent component of earnings risk have been rising in West Germany in the 1990s ...

Full Time or Part Time? The Contradictory Integration of the East German Female Labour Force in Unified Germany

WM motiviert Arbeitslose

Can Raising Instructional Time Crowd Out Student Pro-Social Behaviour? Evidence From Germany

We study whether raising instructional time can crowd out student pro-social behaviour. To this end, we exploit a large educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional time for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that this rise has a negative and sizeable effect on volunteering, both at the intensive and at the extensive margin. It also affects political ...