SOEP-Suche

Environmental Inequality in Germany

Though environmental inequality research has gained extensive interest in the United States, it has received far less attention in Europe and Germany. The main objective of this book is to extend the research on environmental inequality in Germany. This book aims to shed more light on the question of whether minorities in Germany are affected by a disproportionately high burden of environmental pollution, ...

SOEP Annual Report 2019

Four Essays on the Economics of Education and Inequality

This dissertation includes four essays on the economic analysis of education and inequality. The first essay shows that, between 1993 and 2013, the income share of housing expenditures in Germany increased strongly for the bottom income quintile and fell for the top quintile. These trends are driven by a decline in the costs of homeownership versus renting, changes in household structure, and residential ...

Everyday Experiences in the SOEP Innovation Sample (EE-SOEP-IS): A Multi-Method Study

Empirical Essays on Work, Well-being and Family Formation

This doctoral thesis includes five studies that deal with the topics work, well-being, and family formation, as well as their interaction. The studies aim to find answers to the following questions: Do workers’ personality traits determine whether they sort into jobs with performance appraisals? Does job insecurity result in lower quality and quantity of sleep? Do public smoking bans affect subjective ...

The Impact of Pension Reforms on Income Inequality, Savings, and Health

Diese Dissertation analysiert die Auswirkungen von Rentenreformen auf Beschäftigung, Rentenalter, Alterseinkommen, Sparverhalten und Gesundheit. Dabei wird der Heterogenität der Effekte besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt und auf mögliche Folgen für die Ungleichheit hingewiesen. Die Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Forschungsarbeiten. In der ersten Studie werden die Auswirkungen einer Erhöhung ...

Essays in labor economics

This dissertation pursues the following objectives. First, it studies the factors driving the steady growth in both labor force participation and hours per worker of seniors, individuals above age 62, in the US since the mid 1980s. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to estimate a life-cycle model of labor supply, retirement, and wealth accumulation in order to contrast the labor ...

On Locus of Control in Empirical Microeconomics

Investigating the psychological black box behind individual economic decision making is, without a doubt, one of the most prevalent concerns in recent empirical microeconomics. This is based on the urge of modern behavioral economics to provide the stochastic idiosyncratic shocks in standard economic models with meaningful content. Especially the growing availability of large microdata sources such ...

Income Inequality and Income Risk

This dissertation consists of four empirical chapters with the second also making a methodological contribution. The first chapter empirically investigates the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the income distribution, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless ...

Estimation of Disaggregated Indicators with Application to the Household Finance and Consumption Survey

International institutions and national statistical institutes are increasingly expected to report disaggregated indicators, i.e., means, ratios or Gini coefficients for different regional levels, socio-demographic groups or other subpopulations. These subpopulations are called areas or domains in this thesis. The data sources that are used to estimate these disaggregated indicators are mostly national ...