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  • SOEPpapers 143 / 2008

    Older Babies - More Active Mothers? How Maternal Labor Supply Changes as the Child Grows

    Female labor market activity is dependent on the presence and the age of a child, but how do the determinants develop in magnitude and significance with the child's age? Using German SOEP data from 1991 to 2006 for mothers with young children, the change in maternal labor supply when the child is one, two, and three years old is explicitly addressed. According to the tobit regression results for precise ...

    2008| Katrin Sommerfeld
  • SOEPpapers 142 / 2008

    Improvements and Future Challenges in the Field of Genetically Sensitive Sample Designs

    Understanding the sources of individual differences beyond social and economic effects has become a research area of growing interest in psychology, sociology, and economics. A quantitative genetic research design provides the necessary tools for this type of analysis. For a state-of-the-art approach, multigroup data is required. Household panel studies, such as BHPS (Understanding Society) in the ...

    2008| Frank M. Spinath
  • SOEPpapers 141 / 2008

    Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? Empirical Evidence with German Data

    Deductibles in health insurance are often regarded as a means to contain health care costs when individuals exhibit moral hazard. However, in the absence of moral hazard, voluntarily chosen deductibles may instead lead to self-selection into different insurance contracts. We use a set of new variables in the German Socioeconomic Panel for the years 2002, 2004, and 2006 that measure individual health ...

    2008| Hendrik Schmitz
  • SOEPpapers 140 / 2008

    Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

    We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from rich to poor, they should favour mixed over pure public provision, but if public provision redistributes from ...

    2008| Rainald Borck, Katharina Wrohlich
  • SOEPpapers 139 / 2008

    Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany

    There is by now a vast number of studies which document a sharp increase in crosssectional wage inequality during the 2000s. It is often assumed that this inequality is of a "permanent nature" which in turn is used as an argument calling for government intervention. We examine these claims using a fully balanced panel of full-time employed individuals in Germany from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...

    2008| Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann, Salmai Qari
  • SOEPpapers 138 / 2008

    Family Background or the Characteristics of Children: What Determines High School Success in Germany?

    It is becoming more and more important to be highly skilled in order to integrate successfully into the labor market. Highly skilled workers receive higher wages and face a lower risk of becoming unemployed, compared to poorly qualified workers. We analyze the determinants of successful high school graduation in Germany. As our main database, we use the youth file of GSOEP for the period extending ...

    2008| Benjamin Balsmeier, Heiko Peters
  • SOEPpapers 137 / 2008

    Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union

    The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper provides a robustness analysis of alternative measures of human capital available at the level of EU NUTS1 and ...

    2008| Christian Dreger, Georg Erber, Daniela Glocker
  • SOEPpapers 136 / 2008

    Performance Pay, Risk Attitudes and Job Satisfaction

    We present a sorting model in which workers with greater ability and greater risk tolerance move into performance pay jobs and contrast it with the classic agency model of performance pay. Estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel confirm testable implications drawn from our sorting model. First, prior to controlling for earnings, workers in performance pay jobs have higher job satisfaction, a ...

    2008| Thomas Cornelißen, John S. Heywood, Uwe Jirjahn
  • SOEPpapers 135 / 2008

    Self-Selection and Subjective Well-Being: Copula Models with an Application to Public and Private Sector Work

    We discuss a new approach to specifying and estimating ordered probit models with endogenous switching, or with binary endogenous regressor, based on copula functions. These models provide a framework of analysis for self-selection in economic well-being equations, where assigment of regressors may be choice based, resulting from well-being maximization, rather than random. In an application to public ...

    2008| Simon Luechinger, Alois Stutzer, Rainer Winkelmann
  • SOEPpapers 134 / 2008

    Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence among German Workers

    In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates an intergenerational earnings elasticity of 1/3 .

    2008| Philipp Eisenhauer, Friedhelm Pfeiffer
  • SOEPpapers 133 / 2008

    Private Retirement Savings in Germany: The Structure of Tax Incentives and Annuitization

    The present paper studies the growth, welfare and efficiency consequences of the recent introduction of tax-favored retirement accounts in Germany in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor income uncertainty. We focus on the implicit differential taxation of specific savings motives, the mandatory annuitization of benefits and the impact of special ...

    2008| Hans Fehr, Christian Habermann
  • SOEPpapers 132 / 2008

    Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany

    This paper investigates the relationship between the subjective well-being of both the employed and unemployed and regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an offsetting effect for women.

    2008| Andrew E. Clark, Andreas Knabe, Steffen Rätzel
  • SOEPpapers 131 / 2008

    Risk-Averse by Nation or by Religion? Some Insights on the Determinants of Individual Risk Attitudes

    Research findings have proven that the willingness to take risks is distributed heterogeneously among individuals. In the general public, there is a widely held notion that individuals of certain nationalities tend to hold certain typical risk preferences. Furthermore, religious beliefs are thought to explain differences in risk-preparedness on the individual level. We analyze these two possible determinants ...

    2008| Stephan Bartke, Reimund Schwarze
  • SOEPpapers 130 / 2008

    Adaptation to Income over Time: A Weak Point of Subjective Well-Being

    This article holds the view that intertemporal comparisons of subjective well-being measures are only meaningful when the underlying standards of judgment are unaltered. This is a weak point of such measures. The study investigates the change in the satisfaction judgments resulting from adaptation to income over time. Adaptation is defined to be desensitization (sensitization) to the hedonic effect ...

    2008| Christoph Wunder
  • SOEPpapers 129 / 2008

    Analyse der Panelausfälle im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel SOEP

    Nonresponse stellt ein ernstzunehmendes Problem für die Möglichkeit dar, von einer Stichprobe auf die Grundgesamtheit zu schließen. Durch Nonresponse verringert sich zunächst die Fallzahl der Stichprobe, sodass sich die Effizienz der Schätzer der Grundgesamtheitsparameter im Vergleich zu einer Stichprobe ohne Nonresponse verringert. Zudem besteht die Gefahr der Verzerrung der Schätzer, wenn sich Teilnehmer ...

    2008| Tobias Gramlich
  • SOEPpapers 128 / 2008

    Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

    Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur aktuellen Bildungsdebatte und knüpft an die Theorie des Soziologen Pierre Bourdieus an: untersucht wird, ob und inwiefern die soziale Herkunft eines jungen Menschen in Deutschland sein Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und ökonometrischer Konzepte wird für die Jahre 2001 und 2005 für die Gesamtstichprobe bzw. für die Kohorte der ...

    2008| Astrid Krenz
  • SOEPpapers 127 / 2008

    Gender-Specific Effects of Unemployment on Family Formation: A Cross-National Perspective

    This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing between men and women across a set of welfare ...

    2008| Christian Schmitt
  • SOEPpapers 126 / 2008

    The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood

    The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health problems, which cause additional social costs. This paper examines the intergenerational link and transmission of ...

    2008| Katja Coneus, C. Katharina Spieß
  • SOEPpapers 125 / 2008

    25 Years of SOEP: Over 25 Years of Cooperation of SOEP's DIW Berlin Survey Group with Infratest Sozialforschung and Bernhard von Rosenbladt

    2008| Jürgen Schupp
  • SOEPpapers 124 / 2008

    The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany

    We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...

    2008| Guido Heineck, Silke Anger
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