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Spurious Correlations in Quantile-Based Consumption Spillover Tests

Consumption spillovers are difficult to estimate. Many tests in the literature argue that spillovers cause positive correlations between individual consumption levels and aggregate income quantiles. This paper develops simulation-based procedures for evaluating reduced-form tests for consumption spillovers. I find that the correlation found in prior tests may be spurious, arising from the mechanical ...

Heterogeneity in Trajectories of Life Satisfaction After Reunification: The Role of Individual Resources and Life Stage in Former East Germany

For people living in the former East Germany, reunification with the former West Germany fundamentally transformed the sociopolitical system and most domains of everyday life. Previous research has revealed temporal shifts in average life satisfaction after reunification in the former East German population as a whole, but so far little is known about heterogeneity in patterns of adjustment within ...

Essays in the Economics of Migration

This thesis consists of three independent articles. In the first chapter, I test whether tipping points can explain observed workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Germany over the period 1990-2010. I reject the hypothesis of tipping dynamics. Furthermore, I show that traditional tests of tipping points based on Regression Discontinuity Designs tend to over-reject the null hypothesis ...

SOEP-IS 2018 – Methodenbericht zum „ARB Survey 2018/2019“

SOEP-IS 2020 – Methodenbericht zum „ARB COV Survey 2020“

Arbeitsbiografien und Strukturwandel „nach dem Boom“: Lebensläufe und Berufserfahrungen britischer, französischer und westdeutscher Industriearbeiter und -arbeiterinnen von 1970 bis 2000

The article compares life courses and work biographies of industrial workers in West Germany, France and Britain during the period of de-industrialization between the mid-1970s and the year 2000. It discusses continuities and changes of specific patterns in the work biographies of male skilled and unskilled workers, of young people entering the shrinking job market, of migrant workers, and of women. ...

Die soziale Lage erwerbstätiger Rentner

Eine steigende Anzahl von Rentenbeziehern ist zusätzlich noch oder erneut erwerbstätig. Mitunter wird daraus geschlossen, dass das Rentenniveau in vielen Fällen zu niedrig sei, um daraus den Lebensunterhalt zu bestreiten. Eine Analyse der sozialen Lage erwerbstätiger Rentner zeigt aber, dass diese in der Regel sogar überdurchschnittliche Einkommen haben.

IW-Studie: Viele Rentner arbeiten nicht aus finanzieller Not

Immer mehr Rentner haben eine Nebentätigkeit. Eine Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass viele von ihnen sehr gut ausgebildet sind und nicht wegen Geldsorgen arbeiten.

Income loss among the self-employed: implications for individual wellbeing and pandemic policy measures

Due to the pandemic-induced economic crisis, self-employed individuals are currently suffering considerable income losses. The self-employed and the members in their households usually form an economic unit. As a consequence, the income cuts not only affect the self-employed themselves but also the rest of their household. We used the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to calculate how much income ...

Should Schools Grade Student Behavior? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Comportment Grade Reforms

Numerous countries require teachers to assign comportment grades rating students’ social and work behavior in the classroom. However, the impact of such policies on student outcomes remains unknown. We exploit the staggered introduction of comportment grading across German federal states to estimate its causal effect on students’ school-to-work transitions as well as cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. ...