Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

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  • Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes

    This paper investigates to what extent individuals' risk preferences are correlated with the cross-sectional earnings risk of their occupation. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a direct survey question about willingness to take risks that has been shown to be a behaviorally valid measure of risk aversion. As a measure of earnings risk, we use the cross-sectional ...

    In: Labour Economics 14 (2007), 6, 926-937 | Holger Bonin, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde
  • Participation Behavior of East German Women after German Unification

    Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2001,
    (IZA DP No. 413)
    | Holger Bonin, Rob Euwals
  • Why Are Labor Force Participation Rates of East German Women So High?

    As an example of the adjustment of behavior formed in a centrally planned economy and exposed to a free market economy, the paper studies the development of labor force participation by East German women after unification. To isolate the role of participation behavior from that of individual characteristics, we develop a panel data model that simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. ...

    In: Applied Economics Quarterly 51 (2005), 4, 359-386 | Holger Bonin, Rob Euwals
  • Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany

    In: Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the "5th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users", ed. by Holst, Elke; Hunt, Jennifer and Schupp, Jürgen) 123 (2003), 1, 199-208 | Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe, Hilmar Schneider
  • Life-cycle Incidence of Family Policy Measures in Germany: Evidence from a Dynamic Microsimulation Model

    This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a novel dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated family life-cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with a comprehensive tax-benefit model. The results indicate that households in Germany benefit considerably from family- and ...

    Berlin: DIW Berlin, 2015,
    (SOEPpapers 770)
    | Holger Bonin, Karsten Reuss, Holger Stichnoth
  • The Monetary Value of Family Policy Measures in Germany over the Life Cycle: Evidence from a Dynamic Microsimulation Model

    This article quantifies the monetary value of key family policy measures in Germany over the life cycle. The analysis is based on a dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated life cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel with a comprehensive tax-benefit model. The results indicate that households in Germany receive family- and marriage-related transfers ...

    In: CESifo Economic Studies 62 (2016), 4, 650-671 | Holger Bonin, Karsten Reuss, Holger Stichnoth
  • Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model

    This note derives analytical transition probabilities following a shock to the deterministic component of the conditional logit model. The solution draws on the post-estimation distribution of the error component, identified by use of a utility maximization interpretation of observed choices.

    In: Economics Letters 90 (2006), 1, 102-107 | Holger Bonin, Hilmar Schneider
  • The Post-Unification German Labor Market

    In: Regina T. Riphahn, Dennis J. Snower, Klaus F. Zimmermann , Employment Policy in Transition. The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market
    Berlin et al.: Springer
    8-30
    | Holger Bonin, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Television Role Models and Fertility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

    In this paper we study the effect of television exposure on fertility. We exploit a natural experiment that took place in Germany after WWII. For topographical reasons, Western TV programs, which promoted one/no child families, could not be received in certain parts of East Germany. Using an IV approach, we find robust evidence that watching West German TV results in lower fertility. This conclusion ...

    Berlin: DIW Berlin, 2015,
    (SOEPpapers 752)
    | Peter Bönisch, Walter Hyll
  • Why are East Germans not more mobile? Analyzing the impact of local networks on migration intentions

    Individuals’ preferences in transition regions are still shaped by the former communist system. We test this ‘Communism legacy’ hypothesis by examining the impact of acculturation in a communist regime on social network participation and, as a consequence, on preferences for spatial mobility. We focus on the paradigmatic case of East Germany where mobility intentions seem to be substantially weaker ...

    Berlin: DIW Berlin, 2010,
    (SOEPpapers 334)
    | Peter Bönisch, Lutz Schneider
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