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Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG which is statistically and economically significant. It amounts to 40-60% compared to citizens with an executive ...
In:
Public Choice
156 (2012), 3-4, 653-676
| Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch
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In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich individuals' incomes and, therefore, allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We demonstrate the application of these new measures in analyzing the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany. Moreover, we compare Germany ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
56 (2010), 1, 597–619
| Andreas Peichl, Thilo Schaefer, Christoph Scheicher
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This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components: First, a static module simulates the effects of a tax reform on the budget of the individual households. Secondly, ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2010,
(IZA DP No. 4865)
| Andreas Peichl, Hilmar Schneider, Sebastian Siegloch
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When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to remedy this shortcoming. We use information on firms’ labor demand behavior and feed them into a structural ...
In:
Labour Economics
19 (2012), 1, 129-138
| Andreas Peichl, Sebastian Siegloch
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The existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has not addressed the question of how the circumstances and choices of spouses in a couple should be treated. By omitting information relevant to the spouse in IOp estimations, the implicit assumption has been full responsibility for the spouse’s income, effort and circumstance variables. In this paper, we discuss whether or not the spouse’s ...
In:
Social Choice and Welfare
47 (2016), 3, 607-631
| Andreas Peichl, Martin Ungerer
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The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labour market integration. However, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990. Using German micro data, we empirically analyse how circumstances beyond the sphere of individual control relate to inequality in East and West Germany. Our results ...
In:
Bulletin of Economic Research
69 (2017), 4, 421-427
| Andreas Peichl, Martin Ungerer
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This paper explores the retirement intentions of employees and the factors that influence those intentions. Conflicts between employees and their superiors, as well as the role health plays in this conflict, were analysed using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. The results showed that both conflicts and individual’s health status play a role in retirement decisions. Conflict with superiors is significantly ...
In:
Sozialer Fortschritt
66 (2017), 10, 699-722
| Martha Ottenbacher
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This study compares work time data collected by the German Time Use Survey (GTUS) using the diary method with stylized work time estimates from the GTUS, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the German Microcensus. Although on average the differences between the time-diary data and the interview data is not large, our results show that significant deviations exist between these two techniques for certain ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
97 (2010), 3, 325-339
| Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
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In this article, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age of 40. A second observation ...
In:
Applied Economics
48 (2016), 14, 1303-1316
| Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
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Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental health, as measured by the Mental Component Summary Score from the SF-12. Fixed effects and dynamic linear models are estimated, which, together with the longitudinal nature of the data, enable person-specific ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 843)
| Steffen Otterbach, Mark Wooden, Yin King Fok