Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany: How Would It Affect the Income Distribution, Work Incentives and Household Welfare?

BAföG-Reform 2008: Kaum Auswirkungen auf die Studienaufnahme von Abiturienten

In Deutschland erfolgt die finanzielle Förderung bedürftiger Studierender durch das Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz (BAföG) mit dem Ziel, den Zugang zu qualifizierenden Ausbildungsstätten für alle - unabhängig von der wirtschaftlichen Situation der Familie - zu ermöglichen. Im Dezember 2007 hat der deutsche Bundestag eine Reform des BAföG beschlossen, wonach die Bedarfssätze sowie die Freibeträge ...

Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Means-tested student aid might affect enrollment in higher education. To derive the potential influence of student aid, we use a tax-benefit microsimulation model. The effect is a nonlinear function of parental income, with variation as a result of bracket creeping and various reforms. Therefore, the effect of student aid on enrollment can be separated from the effects of income and other family characteristics. ...

Documentation of the Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model STSM

Documentation of the Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model STSM

Cross-National Trends in Income Poverty and Dependency: The Evidence for Young Adults in the Eighties

Poverty and Income Maintenance in Old Age: A Cross-National View of Low Income Older Women

Going to Extremes: An International Perspective on the Economic Status of the United States Aged

Working Fathers in Europe: Earning and Caring

This article asks whether co-residential fathers who spend more time looking after their children work fewer hours and earn less than other fathers and non-fathers. The results suggest that to the contrary, fathers who spend more time with their children earn more per hour and work fewer hours per week, on average, than those who spend less time with their children. In other words, employed fathers ...

A Cautionary Note on the Reliability of the Online Survey Data: The Case of Wage Indicator

We investigate the reliability of data from the Wage Indicator (WI), the largest online survey on earnings and working conditions. Comparing WI to nationally representative data sources for 17 countries reveals that participants of WI are not likely to have been representatively drawn from the respective populations. Previous literature has proposed to utilize weights based on inverse propensity scores, ...