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SOEPpapers 596 / 2013
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focuson the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market reforms promoting in particular non-standard forms of employment and allowing for an expansion of low pay, ...
2013| Werner Eichhorst, Verena Tobsch
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment, blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for differences-in-differences-in-differences estimation based on linked employer-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable ...
In:
Empirical Economics
46 (2014), 4, 1429-1446
| Pia Rattenhuber
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This paper estimates the causal effect of retirement on health using Regression Discontinuity Design and instrumental variables. Age serves as an assignment variable for the RDD estimation and eligibility for a state pension is used as an instrument for retirement. Self-reported health status and the physical and mental sum-mary score of the SF12 measure are used as dependent variables. The...
16.10.2013
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Research Project
Traditional climate policy targets primarily production-side measures. This project complements this focus by analyzing both conventional and innovative demand-side policies. The project makes an effort to quantify the mitigation potential of these measures under various scenarios, assess the political feasibility as well as their impacts from a macroeconomic perspective. It derives...
Completed Project| Climate Policy
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Report
We are pleased to announce the 10th anniversary "International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium", March 20-21, 2014, Delmenhorst (Bremen), Germany.The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoctoral researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) to present empirical research ...
29.10.2013
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Externe Working Papers
Households can rely on private savings or on public unemployment insurance to hedge against the risk of becoming unemployed. These hedging mechanisms are used differently across countries. In this paper, we use a life cycle model to study the effects of unemployment on the portfolio choice of households in the US and in Germany. We distinguish short- and long-term unemployment and find that, in case ...
Tübingen:
IAW,
2011,
53 S.
(IAW Discussion Papers ; 77)
| Franziska Bremus, Vladimir Kuzin
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Externe Working Papers
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We look at five different sets of factors ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2013,
26 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7637)
| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva Sierminska
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Externe Working Papers
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well-being, they overwhelmingly focus on life satisfaction ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2013,
43 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7654)
| Christian von Scheve, Frederike Esche, Jürgen Schupp
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Externe Working Papers
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality, time use and ambition using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2013,
33 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7655)
| Adrian Hille, Jürgen Schupp
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Externe Working Papers
We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well-being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantlyincreased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase-out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition to ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2013,
42 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 7691)
| Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach, Nicolas R. Ziebarth