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Living Standards in Retirement: Accepted International Comparisons are Misleading

Accepted international assessments of living standards in retirement rely on comparing social pension incomes. These assessments conclude that European countries with contributory pension schemes provide retirees with higher living standards than liberal Anglo-American regimes in which many citizens rely on flat rate old age pensions. Comparisons based solely on pension incomes are potentially misleading ...

The Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and its Member Country Household Panel Studies

Die internationale Einbettung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) im Rahmen des Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF)

Zur langfristigen Entwicklung von Einkommen und Armut in Deutschland

Seit dem Jahr 2000 ist in Deutschland ein neuerlicher Anstieg sowohl der Ungleichheit der Einkommen als auch der relativen Einkommensarmut zu beobachten. Dies geht übereinstimmend aus Berichten hervor, die in jüngster Zeit auf Grundlage unterschiedlicher Einkommenskonzepte und Datenquellen veröffentlicht wurden. Viele der Einzelergebnisse basieren auf Daten des vom DIW Berlin in Zusammenarbeit mit ...

Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income: Insights from the UK and Germany

We first confirm previous results with the German Socio-Economic Panel by Layard et al. (2010), and obtain strong negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference income. The effects on lifesatisfaction are positive and significant for those under 45, consistent with Hirschman’s (1973) ‘tunnel effect’, and only negative (and ...

So Far so Good: Age, Happiness, and Relative Income

In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey, we first confirm the standard negative effects of comparison income on life satisfaction ...

Testing the tunnel effect: comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels

In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects. In GSOEP they cancel to give no effect of effect of comparison income on life satisfaction in the whole sample, when controlling for fixed effects, ...

Testing for State Dependence Effects in a Dynamic Model of Male Unemployment Behaviour

Migrants in Germany: The Role of Intergenerational Relations in Economic Integration and Labor Market Effects (Dissertation)

Gender Differences in the Earnings Mobility of Migrants

This study analyzes gender differences in the intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation migrants in Germany. The analysis takes into account potential influences like assortative mating in the form of ethnic marriages and the parental integration measured by parents’ years since migration. First, intergenerational earnings elasticities are estimated at the mean and along the earnings ...