Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Skewed, Persistent and High before Death: Medical Spending in Germany

We use claims panel data from a big German private health insurer to provide detailed individual-level evidence on medical spending between 2005 and 2011. This includes evidence on the distribution of medical spending, the dependence of medical spending on age and other demographic characteristics, its persistence, and how medical spending evolves in the years before death. Our main findings are that ...

Fast Methods for Jackknifing Inequality Indices

The jackknife is a resampling method that uses subsets of the original database by leaving out one observation at a time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only a few passes through the data. The number of passes is independent of the number of observations. Hence, the method provides an efficient way to obtain standard ...

Geschlechtstypische Unterschiede in den Berufspräferenzen deutscher Jugendlicher

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Einfluss von Eltern und Geschwistern auf eine geschlechtstypische Berufspräferenz von 17-jährigen Mädchen und Jungen. Anhand von Daten des SOEP werden die Geschlechtstypik des Berufes der Eltern, das monatliche Äquivalenzeinkommen sowie die Anzahl und das Geschlecht der Geschwister in der Analyse berücksichtigt. Es zeigt sich, dass sich vor allem Mädchen ...

Der Einfluss der Pflegeverantwortung von Frauen auf das Arbeitsangebot ihrer Partner: Eine Untersuchung mit dem SOEP

Durch den zu erwartenden Anstieg der Zahl Pflegebedürftiger und die hohe Bedeutung der familialen Pflege in Deutschland gewinnt die Vereinbarkeit von Pflege und Beruf für immer mehr Paare an Bedeutung. Diese Arbeit analysiert mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels „spill-over“-Effekte von Pflege auf Erwerbsarbeit innerhalb von Partnerschaften. Untersucht wird für die Jahre 2001 bis 2011, ob eine Pflegetätigkeit ...

Die Konstruktion eines synthetischen Mikrodatenfiles für steuerpolitische Simulationen

Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany

This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995-2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by increased SAP payments controlling for income, whether or not they actually receive such payments (stigma and social jealousy). While there are obvious benefits ...

You're Fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Entry Unemployment on Life Satisfaction

This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984–2006, using a sample of men and women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Across the board we find large significant negative effects for unemployment on life satisfaction.This paper expands on previous cornerstone research from Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998) and explicitly identifies truly exogenous unemployment ...

Heresy or enlightenment? The well-being age U-shape effect is flat

The otherwise seemingly robust age U-shape effect on life satisfaction in pooled OLS regressions is refuted with the German SOEP when controlling for panel fixed effects and respondent experience in the panel. Interviewer characteristics also impact significantly on life satisfaction responses.

Re-employment Expectations and the Eye of Providence

Using a nationally representative panel dataset, this study investigates the extent and impact of systematic misconceptions of the currently unemployed concerning their statistical re-employment probability, affecting their labor market behavior in a sub-optimal way. Specifically, people with unemployment experience of 3 to 5 years significantly underestimate their objective re-employment probabilities ...

Re-employment expectations and realisations: Prediction errors and behavioural responses

Using a nationally representative panel dataset, this study investigates the extent and impact of systematic misconceptions that the currently unemployed have about their prospect of re-employment. Such biased expectations are of interest because of their capacity to drive sub-optimal labour market behaviour. Specifically, people with unemployment experience of three to five years significantly underestimate ...