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DIW Weekly Report 28/29 / 2019
There has been a universal statutory minimum wage in Germany for a good four years, but many employees still do not receive it. This is the finding of new calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which have updated noncompliance with the minimum wage for 2017. Even conservative calculations indicate that around 1.3 million people who are entitled to the minimum wage receive a lower wage ...
2019| Alexandra Fedorets, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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Report
SAVE THE DATE: July 9-10, 2020, in Berlin!
The call for papers on our SOEP2020 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online.
Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract.The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "Inequalities and Their Subjective Perceptions in a Changing World".
More information on our conference website.
15.07.2019
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Externe Working Papers
The objective of the study is to investigate the changing role of explanatory factors of wealth and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individuallevel microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The authors apply distributional decomposition methods and focus on the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status in this ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2019,
43 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 12404)
| Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus M. Grabka
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DIW Discussion Papers 1810 / 2019
We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system consisting of the affected supervisory boards and unaffected management boards within the same firm. We find a positive effect on the female share on supervisory ...
2019| Alexandra Fedorets, Anna Gibert, Norma Burow
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines possible differences between lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGBs) compared to heterosexuals with respect to their integration into the residential neighbourhood. By means of a multi-level analysis, we examine if there is a gap in social integration between LGBs compared to heterosexuals, and if so, to what extent municipality characteristics can account for variations in this ...
In:
Social Science Research
84 (2019) 102320, 13 S.
| Mirjam Fischer, Matthijs Kalmijn, Stephanie Steinmetz
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Differences in mortality between groups with different socioeconomic positions (SEP) are well-established, but the relative contribution of different SEP measures is unclear. This study compares the correlation between three SEP dimensions and mortality, and investigates differences between gender and age groups (35–59 vs. 60–84). We use an 11% random sample with an 80% oversample of deaths from the ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
145 (2019), 1, S. 349-365
| Rasmus Hoffmann, Hannes Kröger, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen
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SOEPpapers 999 / 2018
It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in self-employment rates. With representative German data and unconditional quantile regression analysis we show that an increase in the proportion of self-employed ...
2018| Stefan Schneck
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SOEPpapers 998 / 2018
This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that deprivation in social participation can be convincingly established by drawing on extensive non-participation in customary ...
2018| Nicolai Suppa
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SOEPpapers 1005 / 2018
Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU’s targeted groups. This serves as an indication of the minority’s perceived maltreatment by German institutions while investigating ...
2018| Sumit S. Deole
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Press Release
The top 10% of income earners in Germany earn almost as much as the middle 40% – the top 1%’s share of national income has increased from eight to 13 percent since 1995.
The share of national income belonging to the top 1% of income earners has grown significantly in Germany since the mid-1990s, while the share earned by the bottom 50% has significantly decreased. These are the main findings ...
16.01.2018