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Are there gender differences in associations of effort–reward imbalance at work with self-reported doctor-diagnosed depression? Prospective evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Purpose: Cohort studies established elevated risks of depression among employees experiencing psychosocial stress at work, defined by ‘job strain’ or ‘effort–reward imbalance’ (ERI). Yet, conflicting evidence exists on whether the strength of these associations varies by gender. We explore this question in a nationally representative sample of working women and men where work stress (ERI) was related ...

The German feed-in tariff revisited - an empirical investigation on its distributional effects

In the context of the German energy transition, the financial burdens associated with subsidies for renewable energies have increased substantially in recent years. These costs are passed on to consumers in the form of the EEG levy as a component of the electricity price. However, some households benefit from owning photovoltaic (PV) systems because they receive the corresponding feed-in tariffs. In ...

Migrant Fertility in Germany and the Eastern Enlargement of the EU

This paper uses data from the Migrant Samples of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the fertility behaviour of women who migrated to Germany between 1990 and 2015. Special emphasis is placed on the large groups of migrants who have moved to Germany from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries since the 1990s. We find that CEE migrants had higher first birth, but much lower second birth rates ...

Befristete Beschäftigung: Sprungbrett oder Sackgasse?

Die von der Bundesregierung angestrebten Einschränkungen der bestehenden gesetzlichen Möglichkeiten zur Befristung von Arbeitsverträgen werden häufig damit begründet, dass betroffene Arbeitnehmer die resultierende Unsicherheit negativ wahrnehmen. Dabei wird unterstellt, dass eine gleichartige unbefristete Beschäftigung die überlegene Alternative darstelle. Da die Arbeitskräftenachfrage der Betriebe ...

Das Modul "Arbeitslosengeld" als Element des IW-Mikrosimulationsmodells STATS: Version 1.0

Wie gefährlich ist COVID-19? Die subjektive Risikoeinschätzung einer lebensbedrohlichen COVID-19-Erkrankung im Frühjahr und Frühsommer 2020 in Deutschland

Um die Corona-Krise und die Wahrnehmung ihrer Risiken zu untersuchen, wird für die vorliegenden Ausführungen auf Informationen aus der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) und der darin eingebetteten SOEP-CoV-Studie zurückgegriffen, bei der im Zeitraum vom 1. April bis 5. Juli 2020 wurde unter anderem die Frage gestellt wurde: „Für wie groß halten Sie die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass das ...

Determinants of earnings losses of displaced workers

Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee data set for Portugal, we studied the persistent earnings losses of workers displaced due to firm closure, collective dismissals and individual dismissals. We found that those losses are rather severe and persistent, representing around 50 percent of the pre-displacement wages, six years after the separation event. Those losses are largely explained ...

Hours Risk and Wage Risk: Repercussions over the Life-Cycle

We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both permanent wage and hours shocks are important to explain earnings risk, but wage shocks have greater relevance. ...

What Can We Obtain from Mental Health Care? The Dynamics of Physical and Mental Health

This study analyzes the dynamic interaction of an individual's physical and mental health using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the Cross-National Equivalent File of Germany. Its main objective is to find a way to reduce people's health expenditure by examining the magnitude of the interdependence between physical and mental health. For the analysis, this study develops a dynamic correlated ...