Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Saving and Consumption When Children Move Out

Based on the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops and saving rises significantly within four years after a child moves out of a household. Per capita consumption of parents is approximately leveled up to that of childless peers after all children are gone. We conclude with respect to the adequacy of saving rates that calibrated life-cycle models assuming a smoothing ...

Soziale Ungleichheit in Deutschland: Befunde und wichtigste Handlungsfelder

Zentrale verteilungspolitische Indikatoren in Deutschland haben sich seit dem Jahr 2005 wieder stabilisiert oder sogar strukturell verbessert. Die Auseinanderentwicklung bei den Brutto- und Nettoeinkommen ist weitgehend zum Stillstand gekommen, die Lohnungleichheit hat nicht weiter zugenommen. Die Bildungsaufstiegschancen haben sich verbessert, der Anteil der Menschen mit erheblichen materiellen Entbehrungen ...

Die neue Generation: Werte, Arbeitseinstellungen und unternehmerische Anforderungen

The Advantages of Demographic Change after the Wave: Fewer and Older, but Healthier, Greener, and More Productive?

Population aging is an inevitable global demographic process. Most of the literature on the consequences of demographic change focuses on the economic and societal challenges that we will face as people live longer and have fewer children. In this paper, we (a) briefly describe key trends and projections of the magnitude and speed of population aging; (b) discuss the economic, social, and environmental ...

So hoch wie möglich, so niedrig wie nötig: Was ist der optimale Mindestlohn?

Für die Einführung eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohns stehen zwei Vorschläge im Raum: Einerseits die von der SPD vertretene Forderung nach einer Einstiegshöhe von 8,50 Euro, andererseits das Unionskonzept für eine paritätisch mit Arbeitgeber- und Arbeitnehmervertretern besetzte Lohnuntergrenzenkommission. Beide Vorschläge sind verbesserungsbedürſtig. Mit 8,50 Euro würde Deutschland einen im internationalen ...

Gender Wage Differentials and the Occupational Injury Risk - Evidence from Germany and the US

Numerous studies, in particular for the US, have shown that individuals in occupations with high injury risk are compensated for that risk by corresponding bonus payments. At the same time, male workers are overrepresented in the most dangerous occupations like scaffolders or miners, while females typically work in relatively safe occupations with respect to occupational injuries. It is therefore remarkable ...

Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity

The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend both, on individual duration in a particular state and the transition probabilities between states. Individual transitions, in turn, depend on observable ...

Low-wage Jobs — Springboard to High-paid Ones?

We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the probability that unemployed persons obtain better-paid jobs in the future (springboard effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random effects bivariate probit model. Our results suggest that low-wage jobs can act as springboards to better-paid work. The improvement of the chance to obtain a high-wage ...

Minimum Wages and their Alternatives: A Critical Assessment

Wie zufrieden macht die Arbeit? Eine neue Quantifizierung der nicht-pekuniären Kosten der Arbeitslosigkeit