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  • SOEPpapers 425 / 2011

    Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany

    This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German population is well-off in at least ...

    2011| Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    How Important Is Cultural Background for the Level of Intergenerational Mobility?

    Based on brother correlations in permanent earnings for different groups of second generation immigrants, the findings in this paper indicate that cultural background is not a major determinant of the level of intergenerational economic mobility.

    In: Economics Letters 114 (2012), 3, S. 335-337 | Daniel D. Schnitzlein
  • SOEPpapers 226 / 2009

    Marital Risk, Family Insurance, and Public Policy

    The present paper aims to quantify the growth and welfare consequences of changing family structures in western societies. For this reason we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with both genders which takes into account changes of the marital status as a stochastic process. Individuals respond to these shocks by adjusting savings and labor supply. Our quantitative results indicate that the ...

    2009| Hans Fehr, Manuel Kallweit, Fabian Kindermann
  • SOEPpapers 82 / 2008

    Does Marriage Pay More than Cohabitation? Selection and Specialization Effects on Male Wages in Germany

    Empirical research has unambiguously shown that married men receive higher wages than unmarried, whereas a wage premium for cohabiters is not as evident yet. Our paper exploits the observed difference between the marital and the cohabiting wage premium in Germany and thus provides new insights into their respective sources, typically explained by specialization (husbands being more productive because ...

    2008| Katherin Barg, Miriam Beblo
  • Externe Monographien

    Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height

    Cambridge : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007, 36 S.
    (NBER Working Paper Series ; 12966)
    | Carlos Bozzoli, Angus S. Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
  • SOEPpapers 493 / 2012

    Gender Differences in Residential Mobility: The Case of Leaving Home in East Germany

    This paper investigates gender differences in the spatial mobility of young adults when initially leaving their parental home. Using individual data from 11 waves (2000-2010) of the SOEP, we examine whether female home leavers in East Germany move across greater distances than males and whether these differences are explained by the gender gap in education. Our results reveal that female home leavers ...

    2012| Ferdinand Geissler, Thomas Leopold, Sebastian Pink
  • SOEPpapers 469 / 2012

    Long-Distance Moves and Labour Market Outcomes of Dual-Earner Couples in the UK and Germany

    Chances are high that partners in dual-earner couples do not receive equal occupational returns from long-distance moves, because job opportunities are distributed heterogeneously in space. Which partners are more likely to receive relatively higher returns after moves? Recent research shows the stratification of returns by gender and highlights the importance of gender roles in mobility decisions. ...

    2012| Philipp M. Lersch
  • Externe Monographien

    High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe

    Bonn: IZA, 2010, 40 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 5399)
    | Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Externe Monographien

    Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match

    München: CESifo, 2010, 41 S.
    (CESifo Working Papers ; 3216)
    | Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer, Jan Schnellenbach
  • SOEPpapers 350 / 2010

    Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health

    We analyze the effect of household indebtedness on different health outcomes using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1999-2009. To establish a causal effect, we rely on (a) fixed-effects methods, (b) a subsample of constantly employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of household indebtedness, such as the ...

    2010| Matthias Keese, Hendrik Schmitz
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