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Gutachten zur Erforderlichkeit von Schülerindividualdaten in NRW

Essays in Applied Economics (Dissertation)

Sonderauswertungen des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) 2020 und 2021 zu Löhnen und Arbeitszeiten in der Pandemie: Abschlussbericht

Men Lose Life Satisfaction with Fewer Hours in Employment: Mothers Do Not Profit from Longer Employment—Evidence from Eight Panels

This article uses random and fixed effects regressions with 743,788 observations from panels of East and West Germany, the UK, Australia, South Korea, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. It shows how the life satisfaction of men and especially fathers in these countries increases steeply with paid working hours. In contrast, the life satisfaction of childless women is less related to long working ...

Alterssicherung: Sorgen der Selbstständigen unauffällig

Der Koalitionsvertrag formuliert für neue Selbständige ohne obligatorische Alterssicherung eine Pflicht zur Altersvorsorge mit Wahlfreiheit. Eine Auswertung des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels zeigt, dass zumindest die subjektiv empfundene Sorge um die Altersversorgung in der Gruppe der Selbständigen nicht höher liegt als bei den übrigen Beschäftigten.

Young adults’ gendered trajectories of housework time when leaving home

Objective: To examine young adult women’s and men’s time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background: From a life-course perspective, establishing an own household is one of the key markers of the transition to adulthood. Leaving home is associated with new responsibilities concerning the organization of everyday life, including routine housework, and provides a ...

The impacts of health shocks on household labor supply and domestic production

This paper investigates the impact of severe health shocks on labor supply decisions and domestic production within German households. We draw from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), focusing on individuals aged 25 to 55 at the time of their first observed health shock. After the health shock, we find that affected individuals suffer a persistent loss in annual gross labor income of around 4,000 ...

The Economic Costs of Men's Long Work Hours for Women: Evidence on the Gender Wage Earnings Gap from Australia and Germany

Women's earnings inequality persists, despite policy efforts to reduce discrimination and gender bias. Gender gaps in earnings, however, are a function of hours worked as well as wage rates, and reflect gendered short and long work hour patterns. Within households, how partners exchange time is a crucial driver of hours worked yet this is rarely incorporated into analysis of gender earning gaps. ...

Beispiel England zeigt: Jeder Fehltag in der Schule geht mit schlechteren Abschlussnoten einher

In den meisten deutschen Bundesländern ist aufgrund fehlender Daten unklar, ob und ab wann Fehltage in der Schule ein ernstzunehmendes Problem mit Blick auf die Leistungen von Schüler*innen sind. In England hingegen sind genauere Analysen möglich – Fehltage von Schüler*innen werden dort als ein großes Problem betrachtet. Diese Studie vergleicht erstens die Entwicklung der Fehltage in England und Berlin ...

A Comment on "Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality" by Fehr, Mollerstrom and Perez-Truglia (2022)

Fehr, Mollerstrom and Perez-Truglia (2022) studied individual preferences for policies addressing global inequality by conducting a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of Germans from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). They found that Germans systematically underestimated their true place in the global income distribution; that these misperceptions were persistent; and ...