SOEP Research: Inequality and Mobility

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  • SOEPpapers 978 / 2018

    A Novel Sampling Strategy for Surveying High-Worth Individuals - An Application Using the Socio-Economic Panel

    High-worth individuals are typically underrepresented or completely missing in population surveys. The lack of a register-based sampling frame on high-worth individuals in many countries challenged previous attempts to sample high-worth individuals in voluntary scientific surveys. In a novel research design, we draw on register data on the shareholding structures of companies as a sampling frame. Our ...

    2018| Carsten Schröder, Charlotte Bartels, Markus M. Grabka, Martin Kroh, Rainer Siegers
  • Non-refereed Articles

    Homeownership and Wealth in Switzerland and Germany

    Property wealth represents the most important wealth component in nearly all OECD countries. Homeownership is linked to wealth accumulation in several ways: Wealthier households are more likely to buy a house or apartment, home owners tend to save more and rising house values typically yield higher returns than money in a bank account. Moreover, owners can borrow on a mortgage to finance, e.g., the ...

    In: Robin Tillmann, Marieke Voorpostel, Peter Farago , Social Dynamics in Swiss Society : Empirical Studies Based on the Swiss Household Panel
    Cham: Springer
    S. 175-185
    Life Course Research and Social Policies ; 9
    | Ursina Kuhn, Markus Grabka
  • Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2018

    Minimum Wage Not yet for Everyone: On the Compensation of Eligible Workers before and after the Minimum Wage Reform from the Perspective of Employees

    Calculations based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that after the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in January 2015, the wage growth of eligible employees with low wages accelerated significantly. Before the reform, the nominal growth in contractual hourly wages in the lowest decile, the bottom tenth of the pay distribution, was less than two percent in the long-term ...

    2018| Patrick Burauel, Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, Linda Wittbrodt
  • Sonstige Publikationen des DIW / Aufsätze 2018

    Real Income Rose Significantly between 1991 and 2014 on Average – First Indication of Return to Increased Income Inequality

    The real disposable income of private households in Germany, accounting for inflation, rose by 12 percent between 1991 and 2014. This is what the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has shown. However, the trends varied greatly depending on income group. While the middle income segment rose by more than eight percent, the highest income segment increased by up to 26 percent. ...

    2018| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
  • Weitere referierte Aufsätze

    Armut in Deutschland: Ein Vergleich zwischen den beiden Haushaltspanelstudien SOEP und PASS

    Die Ergebnisse von Armutsanalysen auf Basis von Befragungsdaten unterliegen statistischen Unsicherheiten und möglichen systematischen Verzerrungen, deren Ursachen sowohl in der Pre-Data-Collection-Phase (z. B. bei der Stichprobenziehung), der Data-Collection-Phase (Unit- bzw. Item-Non-Response), als auch in der Post-Data-Collection-Phase (Gewichtung, Datengenerierung) liegen können. Um diese studienspezifischen ...

    In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 12 (2018), 1, S. 27-62 | Jonas Beste, Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Outcomes of Unemployment Episodes during Early Career for Mismatched Workers in the United Kingdom and Germany and the Mediating Effects of Education and Institutions

    Our research challenges the traditional view that unemployment is an unequivocal negative event in working life. We argue that depending on workers’ educational attainment and on national-specific institutional settings unemployment might have different implications on young workers who begin their employment careers in low occupational positions. The strongly skill-based and rigid labour market in ...

    In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 55 (2018), S. 99-108 | Alberto Veira-Ramos, Paul Schmelzer
  • DIW Weekly Report 20 / 2018

    Upward and downward Social Mobility Probabilities Have Converged for Men and Women

    This study investigates professional social mobility, i.e., changes in one’s occupational status compared to that of their parents. It uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (Sozio-oekonomisches Panel, SOEP) on middle-aged, western Germans who were born between 1939 and 1971. On average, social status relative to parents has increased (absolute social mobility). However, looking at how positions ...

    2018| Nicolas Legewie, Sandra Bohmann
  • Weekly Report

    Income Distribution in Germany : Real Income on the Rise since 1991 but More People with Low Incomes

    Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has remained high. These are the findings ...

    24.05.2018| Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka
  • Weekly Report

    Upward and downward social mobility probabilities have converged for men and women

    This study investigates professional social mobility, i.e., changes in one’s occupational status compared to that of their parents. It uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP) on middle-aged, western Germans who were born between 1939 and 1971. On average, social status relative to parents has increased (absolute social mobility). However, looking at ...

    24.05.2018| Sandra Bohmann, Nicolas Legewie
  • SOEPpapers 968 / 2018

    Great Expectations: Reservation Wages and the Minimum Wage Reform

    We use the German Socio-Economic Panel to show that introducing a high-impact statutory minimum wage causes an increase in reservation wages of approximately 4 percent at the low end of the distribution. The shifts in reservation wages and observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are comparable in their magnitude. Additional results show that German citizens adjust their reservation wages more ...

    2018| Alexandra Fedorets, Alexey Filatov, Cortnie Shupe
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