Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

A feasible basic income scheme for Germany

Germany's social security system and its income taxation suffers from intransparent and inefficient interdependencies between the two systems. Additionally, work incentives of the current unemployment benefits are reduced by high implicit marginal tax rates. Due to these inconsistencies there is an ongoing debate in politics and economics to replace the current regulations with an unconditional ...

Studie des Roman-Herzog-Instituts: Die deutsche Mittelschicht: stabil, aber verunsichert

Die Coronakrise sorgt für Abstiegsängste bis in die Mitte der Gesellschaft hinein. Die hat sich bis zum Ausbruch der Pandemie aber erstaunlich stabil gezeigt, wie eine Studie zeigt.

Selbstständige: Nur geringe Sorgen vor Altersarmut

Arbeitnehmer sind mit Blick auf ihre Alterssicherung etwas skeptischer als Selbstständige.

Trends of healthy and unhealthy working life expectancy in Germany between 2001 and 2020 at ages 50 and 60: a question of educational level?

Background: Extending the number of active working years is an important goal both for maintaining individual quality of life and safeguarding social security systems. Against this background, we examined the development of healthy and unhealthy working life expectancy (HWLE/UHWLE) in the general population and for different educational groups. Methods: The study is based on data from the German Socio-Economic ...

Trends in good self-rated health in Germany between 1995 and 2014: do age and gender matter?

Objectives: This study analyzes longitudinal trends in self-rated health (SRH) by taking age- and gender-specific differences into account. Methods: Data of 29,251 women and 26,967 men were obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1995 and 2014. Generalized Estimation Equation analysis for logistic regression was used to estimate changes in odds of (very) good SRH over time. Development ...

The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data

This replication revisits an influential contribution on the intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes, which, based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), reveals a positive correlation between parents' and children's attitudes. The authors of the original study argue that socialization in the family is important in the transmission process. The replication ...

From feeling depressed to getting diagnosed: Determinants of a diagnosis of depression after experiencing symptoms

Background:Receiving a formal diagnosis for a depressive disorder is a prerequisite for getting treatment, yet the illness inherently complicates care-seeking. Thus, understanding the process from depression symptoms to diagnosis is crucial.Aims:This study aims to disentangle (1) risk factors for depression symptoms from (2) facilitators and barriers to receiving a diagnosis after experiencing depression ...

Is It Possible to Raise National Happiness?

We revisit the Easterlin paradox about the flatness of the happiness trend over the long run, in spite of sustained economic development. With a bounded scale that explicitly refers to “the best possible life for you” and “the worst possible life for you”, is it even possible to observe a rising trend in self-declared life satisfaction? We consider the possibility of rescaling, i.e. that the interpretation ...

Einkommenseffekte des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns in Deutschland reichen bis in die Mitte der Verteilung

Economies of Scale for Household Wealth: An Analysis of Equivalence Scales

Measures of private wealth often refer to households or tax-units, but how does household wealth relate to individual welfare? Analogous to household economies of scale for consumption, this paper offers a methodology and empirical results to account for household wealth scale effects. These scale effects vary depending on the purpose of savings: funding consumption versus holding wealth for motives ...