Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The Interplay between Locus of Control and Reemployment

Given the negative effects of unemployment on society and individuals alike, research needs to identify factors associated with reemployment. Under the guiding framework of the dynamic developmental model (DDM) of personality and work, the present study therefore investigates the role of locus of control as both a contributor to and an outcome of reemployment. Building on a sample of 538 participants ...

The Role of Risk Propensity in Predicting Self-Employment

This study aims to untangle the role of risk propensity as a predictor of self-employment entry and self-employment survival. More specifically, it examines whether the potentially positive effect of risk propensity on the decision to become self-employed turns curvilinear when it comes to the survival of the business. Building on a longitudinal sample of 4,973 individuals from the German Socio-Economic ...

Family Policies, Women's Earnings, and Between-Household Inequality: Trends in 18 OECD countries from 1981 to 2005

This paper examines to what extent family policies have affected earnings inequality within and between coupled households. Previous studies had found cross-country variation in the degree to which women’s earnings attenuate earnings inequality between households. In this paper we explain this variation with reconciliation policies and financial support policies. We used person-level data from the ...

Women’s Earnings: Trends in earnings inequality within and between coupled households in 18 OECD countries, 1981-2005

In this paper we show that women’s earnings attenuate inequality between coupled households, even though the earnings of spouses are positively correlated. We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS, 2013) on 572,222 coupled households, covering the period from 1981 to 2005 in 18 OECD countries. Three trends are described. Firstly, over time women’s earnings increasingly contributed to total ...

Your Spouse Is Fired! How Much Do You Care?

This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at the couple level. Using German panel data on married and cohabiting partners for 1991-2013 and information on exogenous job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of indirectly-affected spouses. The impact is equally ...

German study finds happiness is based on choices, not genes

Pension Institutions and Income Inequality across European Societies: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom

This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It is focused on the government’s and social partner’s efforts to provide old-age security benefits, and how these regulatory approaches have shaped the current structure of the public-private mix of pension protection systems. The different regulatory approaches may, in ...

Steigende EEG-Umlage: Unerwünschte Verteilungseffekte können vermindert werden

Die EEG-Umlage, die Stromverbraucher für die Förderung von Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien zahlen müssen, wird im Jahr 2013 stark steigen. Dadurch erhöht sich der Anteil der Ausgaben für Strom an den Konsumausgaben privater Haushalte von durchschnittlich rund 2,3 Prozent im Jahr 2011 und knapp 2,4 Prozent im Jahr 2012 auf knapp 2,5 Prozent im Jahr 2013. Davon entfallen 0,5 Prozentpunkte - einschließlich ...

Flexible Familienernährerinnen: Dauerhafte Unfreiwilligkeit versus temporäre Freiwilligkeit

Tax-Transfer Systems in Europe: Between Efficiency, Redistribution and Stabilization (Dissertation)