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This article highlights the potentials for migration research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a longitudinal panel dataset of private households in Germany running since 1984. We provide a concise overview of its basic features, describe the survey contents and research potentials, and demonstrate opportunities to link external data sources to the SOEP thereby presenting its diverse ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
241 (2021), 4, 527-549
| Jannes Jacobsen, Magdalena Krieger, Felicitas Schikora, Jürgen Schupp
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The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we evaluate the role of specific housing policies that tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany has an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility criteria, high transfer taxes when buying real ...
In:
Journal of the European Economic Association
19 (2021), 1, 128-164
| Leo Kaas, Georgi Kocharkov, Edgar Preugschat, Nawid Siassi
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Objective: This study examined potentially gendered net worth changes over the marital dissolution process, starting up to 3 years prior to separation and continuing up to 15 years postdivorce. Background: Incipient literature showed steep wealth declines for men and women associated with divorce, treating marital dissolution as a single point-in-time event. These findings may be limiting as legal ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
83 (2021), 1, 243-259
| Nicole Kapelle, Janeen Baxter
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Discrimination and rejection experienced by LGBTQI* people affect their mental health and, in the long term, their physical health as well. Survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel and Bielefeld University show that LGBTQI* people in Germany are affected by negative mental health outcomes three to four times more often than the rest of the population. Poor physical health that may be stress-related, ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
5/6/2021 (2021), 42-50
| David Kasprowski, Mirjam Fischer, Xiao Chen, Lisa de Vries, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, David Richter, Zaza Zindel
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People effortlessly and rapidly form a first impression of an individual’s personality based on their facial appearance. Forming an impression based on facial cues can have real world implications, for example, for the outcome of elections, courtroom decisions or work-place interviews. Research using traditional methods has, however, failed to identify the facial features that are related to specific ...
2019,
| Matthias D. Keller
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To which extent do happiness correlates contribute to the stability of life satisfaction? Which method is appropriate to provide a conclusive answer to this question? Based on life satisfaction data of the German SOEP, we show that by Negative Binomial quasi-maximum likelihood estimation statements can be made as to how far correlates of happiness contribute to the stabilisation of life satisfaction. ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 8, 3611-3629
| Johannes Klement
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We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using decomposition methods, quantile regressions, ...
London:
Centre fo Economomic Policy Research (CEPR),
2020,
(CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15338)
| Maria Koumenta, Mario Pagliero, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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The Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach has been widely used to attribute group-level differences in an outcome to differences in endowment, coefficients, and their interactions. The method has been implemented for Stata in the popular oaxaca command for cross-sectional analyses. In recent decades, however, research questions have been more often focused on the decomposition of group-based ...
In:
The Stata Journal
21 (2021), 2, 360-410
| Hannes Kröger, Jörg Hartmann
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Motherhood penalties vary strongly across societal contexts. While most studies that aim to explain such differences focus on institutions, a smaller literature refers to the influence of cultural norms or a complex interaction between the two. Empirically, however, it is yet unclear if such norms play a role and how they—jointly with institutions—contribute to motherhood penalties. We make use of ...
2020,
(SocArXiv Preprints)
| Matthias Collischon, Andreas Eberl, Malte Reichelt
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Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women’s and men’s earnings using propensity score matching. I estimate the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1120)
| Charlotte H. Feldhoff