Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Impact of Educational and Religious Homogamy on Marital Stability

Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative mating is optimal. Our results, however, ...

Labor division between wife and husband and the risk of divorce: New evidence for Germany

Using German panel data from 1984 to 2007, we analyze the impact of labor division between husband and wife on the risk of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively, reduces the risk of separation. Traditionally, the breadwinner role is assigned to the husband, however, female labor force participation and their wages have ...

System-Based Analysis of Income Distribution Impacts on Mobility Behaviour

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Umwelt

Spitzeneinkommen zwischen ökonomischem und normativem Marktversagen: Marktorientierte und soziale Legitimation von Topmanager-Gehältern

Die Ungleichheit der Einkommensverteilung hat nicht zuletzt deshalb stark zugenommen, weil die Bezieher von Spitzeneinkommen überproportional hohe Einkommenszuwächse erzielten. Vor allem der mittlerweile immense Abstand der Gehälter von Topmanagern zu den von Normalverdienern wird in Öffentlichkeit und Wissenschaft intensiv diskutiert. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt die Topmanager-Vergütungen in den ...

Demand-side determinants of rising hospital admissions in Germany: the role of ageing

In this study, we investigated the relationship between changes in demand-side determinants and changes in hospital admissions. We used longitudinal market-wide data, including a novel detailed measure of population morbidity. To assess the effect of ageing, we interacted age with shifts in the population structure for both the surviving population and the population in their last year of life. We ...

Soziale Mobilität der Mitte

The impact of having children on domain-specific life satisfaction: A quasi-experimental longitudinal investigation using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data

Longitudinal studies have documented improvements in parents’ life satisfaction due to childbearing, followed by postpartum adaptation back to baseline. However, the details underlying this process remain largely unexplored. Based on past literature, set-point theory, and results from an exploratory sample, we investigated empirically how first childbirth affected satisfaction with specific domains ...

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