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We use the Socio-Economic Panel to study how the job-shift patterns of West German workers changed between 1984 and 2008, analyzing trends separately by gender, education, labor force experience, firm size, and sector. We document a considerable reduction in the rate of within-firm job changes, especially for men in large companies and with limited labor force experience, which we interpret as evidence ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch - Proceedings of the 9th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
131 (2011), 2, 301-314
| Johannes Giesecke, Jan Paul Heisig
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During recent decades, earnings differentials between educational groups have risen in most advanced economies. While these trends are well-documented, much less is known about inequality trends within educational groups. To address this issue, we study changes in labor market inequalities among low-skilled men in West Germany. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, we show that both risks ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
39 (2015), March 2015, 1-17
| Johannes Giesecke, Jan Paul Heisig, Heike Solga
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In this paper the changes in the wage distribution in (West-)Germany between 1985 and 2006 are analysed. The theoretical framework is based on the literature on skill-biased technological change (SBTC) and on structural theory. Analyses draw on descriptive measures of the development of wage inequality among blue- and white-collar workers as well as on regression analyses of individual and structural ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch - SOEP after 25 Years. Proceedings of the 8th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
129 (2009), 2, 191-201
| Johannes Giesecke, Roland Verwiebe
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The behavioural response with respect to actuarial adjustments in the German public pension system is analysed. The introduction of actuarial adjustments serves as a source of exogenous variation to estimate discrete time transition rates into retirement. The analysis is conducted on administrative data from social security records and on survey data in a comparative scenario. Probability mass points ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2014,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #490)
| Matthias Giesecke
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I estimate the effect of benefit reductions on the timing of retirement. The introduction of actuarial adjustments in the German public pension system serves as a source of exogenous variation to estimate discrete time transition rates into retirement for individuals of age 60–66. Responses to benefit reductions are elaborated separately for manual and non-manual workers. On average, individuals postpone ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
64 (2018), 1, 213-238
| Matthias Giesecke
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This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed individuals and therefore serves as a source of exogenous variation. We estimate continuous time hazard models for individuals at risk of leaving the state unemployment ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2013,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #410)
| Matthias Giesecke, Michael Kind
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We quantify differences in the retirement age between manual and non-manual workers and evaluate these differences in the context of the literature on equality of opportunity. The focus is on the question how individual background during childhood transmits through physical demands of occupations on retirement ages. Individual retrospective data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are used to analyse ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2014,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #492)
| Matthias Giesecke, Sarah Okoampah
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This study analyses differences in individual-level working poverty determinants between Germany and the UK. These differences are linked to institutional patterns at the country level. Here, we observe that the two countries differ especially in bargaining centralisation, employment protection legislation and family policy. At the same time, the levels of decommodification and labour market regulation ...
In:
European Societies
17 (2015), 1, 27-46
| Marco Giesselmann
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The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study is a rich resource for sociologists, mainly because it offers direct measures of respondents’ contexts. The SOEP data provide (i) information retrieved from individuals themselves, (ii) direct information retrieved from their parents, partners, and organizations, (iii) prospectively collected information on past characteristics, and (iv) regional and spatial ...
In:
European Sociological Review
35 (2019), 5, 738-755
| Marco Giesselmann, Sandra Bohmann, Jan Goebel, Peter Krause, Elisabeth Liebau, David Richter, Diana Schacht, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, Stefan Liebig
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Based on considerations of societal mothering ideologies, qualitative gender studies suggest detrimental effects of motherhood on women’s mental well-being. However, numerous quantitative life course analyses find no such effect. This dissonance may originate in the measurement of well-being usually employed in longitudinal quantitative designs, which does not capture the dimensions of well-being identified ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
37 (2018), September 2018, 31-41
| Marco Giesselmann, Marina Hagen, Reinhard Schunck