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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 ...

Estimation of intergenerational mobility in small samples: evidence from German survey data

Using data from the German socio-economic panel, this paper provides new evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany by focusing on intergenerational association in ranks—i.e. positions, which parents and children occupy in their respective income distributions. We find that the association of children’s ranks with ranks of their fathers is about 0.242 for individual labor earnings and it is ...

Development of a German EU-SILC Clone

Results of the 2019 SOEP User Survey

An Overview of SOEP Fieldwork in 2019 : Samples A-L1, L2/3 and N-Q

Report from the SOEP Research Data Center

Record Linkage with Administrative Pension Data (SOEP-RV)