Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Die Anatomie der Einkommensungleichheit in den OECD-Ländern

Development of city tourism and well-being of urban residents: A case of German Magic Cities

Many cities consider development of cultural tourism as opportunity to sustain employment and economic growth of the area. However, increasing tourists’ flows affect local economies and lives of local residents in a number of ways, not excluding negative effects. Careful consideration of benefits and pitfalls of the development of city tourism is necessary in order to sustain balanced urban development. ...

The Effect of Partial Retirement on Labor Supply, Public Balances and the Income Distribution - Evidence from a Structural Analysis

This paper develops a structural dynamic retirement model to investigate effects and corresponding underlying mechanisms of a partial retirement program on labor supply, fiscal balances, and the pension income distribution. The structural approach allows for disentangling the two counteracting mechanisms that drive the employment effects of partial retirement: 1) the crowding-out from full-time employment, ...

Partial Retirement, Financial Student Aid, and Labor Market Responses: Empirical Evidence from Germany

What a Difference Peers Can Make: The Impact of Work Norms on Unemployment Duration - A Regional Approach

Social interaction models, i.e. the changing sequence of actions between individuals who modify their behaviour under the influence of their peers, have rarely enjoyed as high a profile in economic analysis as they do today. This paper outlines a model of how social interactions among persons belonging to the same region might influence individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be ...

The Relation between Life Patterns and Success at Work of Women and Men in Germany

Private Lebenssituation und Karriereentwicklung in männlichen Biographien

Success at Work, Life Patterns, and Overall Life Satisfaction: Changes in the Lives of Men and Women since the 1980s in West Germany

This paper focuses on the structural relationship between family building and upward mobility. Typically this relationship is analyzed for women only, while we include men as well. With new patterns of intimate partnerships and non-traditional families, on the one hand, and a changing labor market, on the other hand, new assertions about their connection have emerged. Using SOEP-data, the possible ...

Social Rented Housing and its Social and Economic Context in Germany

Das kauf ich! Nicht. 1. Was kann ich mir leisten?

Niedrige Zinsen, die Gefahr steigender Preise und dann noch Weihnachten: Geld auszugeben erscheint vielen Menschen derzeit ratsamer, als es anzulegen. Was wir uns finanziell leisten können, aus ethischer Sicht leisten dürfen und wie uns Werbung verführt.