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Sharing the gains of transition: Evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data

We use Pareto imputation, survey reweighting, and microsimulation methods applied to combined household survey and tax return data to re-evaluate trends in income inequality and redistribution in the follow up of the post-socialist transition in Poland. Our approach results in the first estimates of top-corrected inequality trends for real equivalised disposable incomes over the years 1994–2015, a ...

On non-robustness of income polarization measures to housing cycles

Many previous authors concluded that the middle class is disappearing as income polarization is increasing. Using the housing cycle of 2001--2007 and national panels for Australia, the United States, Germany, and Switzerland, I show that polarization is highly sensitive to housing cycles, affecting the ranking of countries. I then show that including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) ...

Cognitive Pretest of a Factorial Survey Experiment on Future Narratives and Family Care: Background Paper for the SOEP-IS Module 2021/22

Within the Preparation Module for the Einstein Center for Population Diversity (ECPD), diverse research institutions came together to provide new survey instruments for the innovation sample in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-IS). With the goal of collecting insightful information about future narratives and family care, central topics of the ECPD research endeavor, factorial survey was chosen ...

The Role of Personality for Gender Gaps in Political Interest and Activity

Women have been found to be, on average, less interested in politics and less politically active than men, which might reduce the representation of women’s interests in a democracy. In order to enhance the understanding of these gender gaps, this preregistered study analyzes the role of personality differences for gender gaps in political interest and activity.I use a large representative sample of ...

Reform Proposal for Marriage Taxation in Germany: De Facto Income Splitting with a Low Transferable Amount

Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the marginal tax burden on the secondary earner’s income and therefore only minimally encourage married women to participate ...

Biography (PAPI) 2020 - field version (en)

Household (PAPI) 2020 - field version (en)

Individual (PAPI) 2020 - field version (en)

How Negative Is Negative Information

Daily, we face a plenty of negative information that can profoundly affect our perception and behavior. During devastating events such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, negative messages may hinder reasoning at individual level and social decisions in the society at large. These effects vary across genders in neurotypical populations (being more evident in women) and may be even more pronounced in ...

Volunteering in Germany: Key Findings of the Fifth German Survey on Volunteering (FWS 2019)

The German Survey on Volunteering (Deutscher Freiwilligensurvey, FWS) has, for two decades, provided the basis for drawing up a report on the current state of affairs and on developments affecting volunteering in Germany. This telephone-based representative study of the German population aged 14 and above has been conducted for this purpose every five years since 1999. This short report presents the ...