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Leisure Behavior of Young People: Education-Oriented Activities Becoming Increasingly Prevalent

Young people's leisure activities are significantly different today than they were ten years ago. The obvious use of communication and entertainment electronics, such as cell phones, computers, and games consoles is only one aspect - there are also less visible changes: informal activities such as meeting with friends are being increasingly sidelined by education-oriented activities like extra-curricular ...

Finanzielle Fragmentierung: Wie lässt sich die Abhängigkeit der Kreditrisiken im Banken- und Staatssektor reduzieren?

Mode of Birth and Social Inequalities in Health: The Effect of Maternal Education and Access to Hospital Care on Cesarean Delivery

Access to health care is an important factor in explaining health inequalities. This study focuses on the issue of access to health care as a driving force behind the socialdiscrepancies in cesarean delivery using data from 707 newborn children in the 2006-2011 birth cohorts of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Data on individual birth outcomes are linked to hospital data using extracts ...

Labor and Love: Wives' Employment and Divorce Risk in Its Socio-political Context

We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-à-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and ...

Parental Leave and Domestic Work of Mothers and Fathers: A Longitudinal Study of Two Reforms in West Germany

Following two parental leave reforms in West Germany, this research explores how child care and housework time changed among couples who have just had a child. The reform in 1992 extended the low paid or unpaid parental leave period, whereas the 2007 reform introduced income-dependent compensation and two "daddy months". This study contributes to the literature by examining different mechanisms on ...

SOEP in the college classroom - new scripts and datasets available

SOEP datasets are now available for use in university teaching. Your first option is to run one of the following scripts for SPSS, Stata, or SAS to create the teaching version from the installed original data (SOEP v.29):Scripts for SPSSStataSAS Alternatively, you can order the SOEP teaching dataset in the format you need from our SOEPhotline at soepmail@diw.de. The procedure is nearly the same as ...

Turning the Switch: An Evaluation of the Minimum Wage in the German Electrical Trade Using Repeated Natural Experiments

The introduction, abolition and subsequent re-introduction of the minimum wage in the German electrical trade gave rise to series of natural experiments, which are used to study minimum wage effects. We find similar impacts in all three cases on wages, employment and the receipt of public welfare benefits. Average wages are raised by the minimum wage in East Germany, but there is almost no evidence ...

Institutional Rearing Is Associated with Lower General Life Satisfaction in Adulthood

We analyzed whether individuals reared in institutions differ in their general life satisfaction from people raised in their families. The data comprised of 19,210 German adults (51.5% female) aged from 17 to 101 years and were provided by the SOEP, an ongoing, nationally representative longitudinal study in Germany. Compared to people raised in families, individuals reared in institutions reported ...

Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State: The Case of Germany

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household ...

Improved Energy Efficiency: Vital for Energy Transition and Stimulus for Economic Growth

As part of the energy transition process, the German government has set far-reaching energy efficiency targets, including doubling the annual energy-efficient refurbishment rate for existing residential buildings from one to two percent. DIW Berlin has estimated the additional energy-related investment required to meet these targets and analyzed the impact this could have on the economy. In the long ...