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Payroll taxation increases inequality at the top

In recent decades, the inequality of household income has increased globally. A common trend is increased income inequality at the top of the distribution. The sources of this trend are a matter of debate. Increased demand for analytical and managerial skills is said to have strongly increased labor incomes at the top. Other scholars have indicated that structural conditions, such as financialization ...

Job Satisfaction Declines in Late Work Life – A Time-to-Retirement Approach

Job satisfaction has previously been found to increase across the life span. However, few studies have focused on the very last years of working life. We applied a time-to-retirement approach to job satisfaction and investigated change in job satisfaction in the ten years before retirement in the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP, n = 2,619). Job satisfaction showed a small non-linear decline as people ...

Analysis of large data sets: Bayesian methods and applications in energy and health economics

The availability of large data sets is increasing dramatically, reshaping decision-making in many domains, such as energy, education and health. Data sets may be large in two dimensions: in the number of observations and in the number of variables. This thesis mainly deals with the first case. Often, large data sets arise as a byproduct of emerging technologies, possibly allowing very detailed measurements ...

SOEP-IS 2018 – ARB-Online-Befragung - Version mit Variablen (de)

SOEP-IS 2018 – Fragebogen für die SOEP-Innovations-Stichprobe (Update Release 2019) - Version mit Variablen (de)

SOEP-IS 2018 – Questionnaire for the SOEP Innovation Sample (Update Release 2019) - Feldversion (en)

SOEP-IS 2019 – BIO: Variables from the Life Course Question Module

SOEP-IS 2019 – BIOAGE: Variables from the Modules of Questions on Children

SOEP-IS 2019 – BIOBIRTH: Birth Biography of Female and Male Respondents

SOEP-IS 2019 – BIOPAREN: Biography Information on the Parents