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What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We investigate consequences of land inequality, exploiting variation in land inheritance rules that traverse political, linguistic, geological, and religious borders in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible. Using ...
In:
The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 664, 3137-3172
| Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger, Natalie Obergruber
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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
| Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder
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Background: The large increase in numbers of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany and most of Europe has put the issue of migration itself, the integration of migrants, and also their health at the top of the political agenda. However, the dynamics of refugee health are not yet well understood. From a life-course perspective, migration experience is associated with various risks and changes, which ...
In:
PLOS Medicine
17 (2020), 3, e1003093
| Jan Michael Bauer, Tilman Brand, Hajo Zeeb
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Nearly 25 years after the German reunification, vastly different living conditions between East and West Germany still remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks. Using the wealth component of the ...
Tübingen:
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
2015,
(University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance)
| Gideon Becker
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We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy variation using an RD design to estimate the effect of increasing disability benefits on employment, earnings, ...
In:
IZA DP No. 17298
IZA DP No. 17298
| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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While the existing evidence on added worker effects is mixed, most studies find no or only small effects. However, studies to date have mostly analyzed individuals’ actual labor supply responses to their partners’ job loss, neglecting to consider a potential mismatch between desired and actual labor supply adjustments. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we study individuals’ changes ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
(online first) (2024),
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Rick Glaubitz
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This chapter provides the first extensive overview of mental health in Germany since reunification. Relying on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, an annual, representative panel study running since 1984 (in East Germany since 1990), this chapter reports the prevalence of mental health conditions in West and East Germany across 30 years. Specifically, the data provides insights into life satisfaction, ...
In:
Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt ,
Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall
London: Routledge
25-51
| Theresa Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Lisa Güttschow
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Objectives: Understanding how social categories like gender, migration background, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) status, education, and their intersections affect health outcomes is crucial. Challenges include avoiding stereotypes and fairly assessing health outcomes. This paper aims to demonstrate how to analyze these aspects. Study Design and Setting: The study used data from N = 19,994 ...
In:
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
173 (2024), 111446
| Michael Erhart, Doreen Müller, Paul Gellert, Julie L. O'Sullivan
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Early life course conditions and the social origin of families frequently influence the inequalities people experience in adulthood. The transition from education to work is a challenging period during which adolescents make their first employment-related choices and establish the course of their careers. Future expectations guide adolescents’ employment-related choices and are assumed to influence ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
61 (2024), 100629
| Frederike Esche, Petra Böhnke
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Various institutional hurdles such as asylum procedures, employment bans and residency restrictions impair the labor market integration of refugees. These hurdles are prevalent particularly at the beginning of their stay, and are reduced over time, as shown by analyses based on the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. Language and other integration programs also gradually facilitate integration into the ...
Nürnberg:
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB),
2024,
(IAB-Kurzbericht No. 10/2024)
| Herbert Brücker, Maye Ehab Samy, Philipp Jaschke, Yuliya Kosyakova