Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Evaluation sozialpolitischer Reformen

Dieser Beitrag illustriert die Evaluation sozialpolitischer Regeländerungen anhand von zwei Reformen, die Eingriffe in die Rechte der Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer vornahmen. Kausale Effekte der Reformen werden anhand von Kontrollgruppen-Ansätzen ermittelt (hier Differenz-von-Differenzen-Schätzungen). Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Eingriffe des Staates in den Arbeitsmarkt neben den gewollten positiven ...

The effects of pension changes on age of first benefit receipt: Regression discontinuity evidence from repatriated ethnic Germans

To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates using administrative pension data, there was no significant delay in the age of first pension receipt. Based on additional ...

Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking

Die betriebswirtschaftliche Logik von Outplacement-Leistungen. Theoretische Erklärungsansätze und ihre Plausibilität im Lichte vorliegender empirischer Befunde

In times of increasing employment uncertainty, the question of employability gains more and more importance. Among the many measures to enhance employee employability the provision of outplacement benefits play a prominent role. This paper takes a first step in systematically exploring the economic rationale of outplacement benefits by considering a number of theoretical approaches that may help to ...

The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis

The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market institutions such as minimum wage laws and nationwide collective bargaining. However, these studies neglect ...

Housing and health in Germany

The Times, They Are A-Changing ... Anmerkungen zum Transformationsprozeß in Ostdeutschland

Estimating a Life Cycle Model with Unemployment and Human Capital Depreciation

Bildung und soziale Mobilität in Deutschland