The SOEPnewsletter 104/ April 2014 is online.It gives information aboutthe meaning of SOEP-Core an update to the SOEP dataset v29new datasets ready for distributionthe potentials of the new SOEPinfo v2results of the SOEP User Survey 2013Call for Papers for the ISQOLS 2014 in Berlin interesting publications with the SOEP... and many more.
After Easter, Germany's new labor and social affairs minister Andrea Nahles will be presenting the grand coalition's first major reform proposal for parliamentary debate: a bill to improve the benefits provided under the statutory pension system. A centerpiece of the reform package is early retirement on a full pension at 63 for those who have been paying into the state pension system for a long period ...
This paper investigates the relevance of the cultural and economic country context for differences in the effect of male partner income on female income and wage rate for 9,373 respondents in 13 European countries. Data taken from the European Community and Household Panel (ECHP), which comprises information on partner income trends between 1994 and 2001, were used to estimate fixed effect models. ...
Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories before and after the birth of a child using large British and German longitudinal data sets. We account for unobserved parental characteristics using fixed-effects models and study how sociodemographic factors modify ...
Daniel Schnitzlein received an appointment to a junior professorship in economics, in particular education economics, at the University of Hannover starting in summer semester 2014. Daniel has accepted the appointment, but will continue to work at the SOEP on a part-time basis. He has held a guest professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg since 2013. Daniel joined the ...
Carsten Schröder is new Head of the division Applied Panel Analysis at the SOEP since 1 March. He is one of three Deputy Directors of SOEP. Schröder was jointly appointedto Professor of Empirical Economic Research (W3) by DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.Before his engagement at the SOEP he was Assistant Professor at the university in Kiel. His main field of research is finance, ...
We examine the effects of an airport expansion on the prices of houses and apartments located under the planned flight paths. We focus on the role of expectations of aircraft noise during the expansion of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport. The publication of the flight paths can be seen as an exogenous event. It provides local residents and potential home buyers with reliable information in ...
Gert G. Wagner is the new Chair of the Social Advisory Council to the German federal government. He was appointed to the 12-member advisory body by the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Andrea Nahles, following a decision of the federal government. The Council’s primary task is to advise the German government and its legislative bodies on questions of pension policy and old-age security ...
