Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Couples’ Strategies after Job Loss in West Germany and the United States – The Added Worker Effect and Linked Life Courses

In couple households, income losses due to men’s displacements may be offset by an increase in women’s earnings, the so called “Added Worker Effect” (AWE). I argue that previous research largely neglected the variation of the AWE due to intra-household characteristics. Following the idea of “linked life courses”, intra-household processes have an influence on the AWE and that this influence is structured ...

The Impact of Losing Your Job: Unemployment and Influences from Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany

Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it’s only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made returning to the labor market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income, family life, ...

Armut und Arbeitslosigkeit

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Teilanrechnung von Renteneinkommen bei der Grundsicherung im Alter und bei Erwerbsminderung

Auswirkungen eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf die Rentenanpassung (Abschlussbericht Projekt S-2013-626-4 für die Hans-Böckler-Stiftung)

Das Gutachten hat zum Ziel, die Auswirkungen eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohns in Deutschland auf die rentenrechtlich relevanten durchschnittlichen Entgelte in Ost- und Westdeutschland zu quantifizieren und, daraus abgeleitet, darzustellen, ob und wie sich ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn auf die Rentenanpassung in Ost und West auswirken würde. Der Einfluss kann sich aufgrund der regional ungleich ausgeprägten ...

Fiskalische Effekte eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohns

Stability of Life-Satisfaction over Time. Analysis of change in ranks in a national population

Regional Variation and Aging in Health Economics (Dissertation)

Understanding the effect of retirement on health using Regression Discontinuity Design

This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the health effects of retirement. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design to exploit financial incentives in the German pension system for identification, I find that retirement improves subjective health status and mental health, while also reducing outpatient care utilization. I explore a wide range of health behaviors, time use, and effect heterogeneity ...