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  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Who Benefits from Place-based Policies? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data (with Philipp Grunau, Florian Hoffmann, and Thomas Lemieux)

    We study the wage and employment effects of a German place-based policy using a research design that exploits conditionally exogenous EU-wide rules governing the program parameters at the regional level. The place-based program subsidizes investments to create jobs with a subsidy rate that varies across labor market regions. The analysis uses matched data on the universe of establishments and...

    02.07.2025| Mirko Titze, The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Keys to the House - How Wealth Transfers Stratify Homeownership Opportunities

    This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequalities in the transition to homeownership by parental social class. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (N = 13,018), we find that individuals whose parents were manual workers or service workers ...

    In: Social Science Research 129 (2025), 103190, 19 S. | Jascha Dräger, Nora Müller, Klaus Pforr
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    A Cohabitation Wealth Premium for Women and Men: Considering the Regulatory Framework and Normative Acceptance in France and Germany

    We examine the association between cohabitation and women’s and men’s wealth, closely considering the distinct regulatory and normative contexts in France and Eastern and Western Germany. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio- Economic Panel Study (2002–2017) and the French wealth survey Histoire de Vie et Patrimoine (2014/15-2020/21), we apply fixed-effects regression models to examine potential ...

    In: Socio-Economic Review (2025), im Ersch. | Nicole Kapelle, Nicolas Frémeaux, Philipp M. Lersch, Marion Leturcq
  • DIW Weekly Report 12/13 / 2025

    The Gender Pension Gap Grows the More Children a Woman Has

    The gender pension gap, the difference in pension entitlements between men and women, is 32 percent for 60-yearolds according to data from the German Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung). In addition, there is a considerable motherhood pension gap: Statutory pension entitlements for mothers and childless women differ greatly. Pension-related childcare credits, which were introduced in 1986 ...

    2025| Peter Haan, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sarah Schmauk, Tatjana Mika
  • DIW Weekly Report 7/8 / 2025

    Income Distribution: Signs of a Trend Reversal In the Poverty Risk; Single Parents Less Frequently at Risk of Poverty

    Despite high inflation, the real gross hourly wages of employees grew by around 15 percent from 1995 to 2022. In particular, the lowest wage decile caught back up to all other deciles following a sharp drop in real wages. At the same time, the low-wage sector has shrunk by nearly five percentage points since 2007, and by even more in the east of Germany (14 percent). In 2022, 18.5 percent of employees ...

    2025| Markus M. Grabka
  • DIW Weekly Report 5/6 / 2025

    Loneliness in Germany: Low-Income Earners at Highest Risk of Loneliness

    Loneliness poses a serious health risk: Along with negatively impacting life quality, it can even shorten the life span. This Weekly Report investigates loneliness in Germany using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2021 on loneliness. The analyses highlight the prevalence of three facets of loneliness (aloneness, isolation, exclusion) as well as regional differences and high-risk groups. The results ...

    2025| Theresa Entringer, Linda Kumrow, Barbara Stacherl
  • SOEPpapers 1217 / 2025

    The Diverging Trends of Male and Female Bottom Earnings in Germany

    Men at the bottom quintile of the German male earnings distribution had lower average earnings in 2019 than in 2001. In contrast, female earnings have increased throughout the distribution. What explains these diverging trends and how did they translate into changes in net income? Data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) reveal that the drop in bottom male earnings is mostly due to a decrease in work ...

    2025| Eliana Coschignano, Robin Jessen
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Long-Term Implications of Destruction During the Second World War on Private Wealth in Germany

    By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20% of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical life-cycle model, this paper examines the persistent consequences of the war for individual wealth across generations. As our empirical basis, we link a unique historical dataset on the levels of wartime destruction in 1739 West German cities with micro data on individual ...

    In: Journal of Economic Growth (2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-05-17] | Christoph Halbmeier, Carsten Schröder
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Wealth Creators or Inheritors? Unpacking the Gender Wealth Gap from Bottom To Top and Young to Old

    There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40, then widens, and declines for those past retirement ...

    In: Economics Letters 246 (2025),111997, 5 S. | Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Effectiveness and Heterogeneous Effects of Purchase Grants for Electric Vehicles

    We evaluate German purchase subsidies for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) using data on new vehicle registrations in Germany dur¬ing 2015-2022. We account for confounding time trends and interacting EU-level CO2 standards using neighboring countries as a control group. We find that 40% of BEV and 25% of PHEV registrations were subsidy-induced. The program ...

    In: Environmental & Resource Economics 88 (2025),S. 185–223 | Peter Haan, Adrián Santonja, Aleksandar Zaklan
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