Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Social Structure and the Paradox of the Contented Female Worker: How Occupational Gender Segregation Biases Justice Perceptions of Wages

This article provides a structural explanation for the paradox of the contented female worker. Although they are generally aware that they earn less than men, women usually perceive their wages as more just. This article argues that men and women do not differ in how they perceive their wages, yet the gendered segregation of the labor market will constrain the availability of preferred same-gender ...

The Ins and Outs of Poverty in Advanced Economies: Government Policy and Poverty Dynamics in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States

Growth, mobility and social progress

We evaluate social progress on the basis of panel data on individual incomes by comparing the value of social welfare in the observed panel data to its value in a situation where individuals receive their first period income in each period. We derive necessary conditions for the welfare gain to be positive, and show how it can be decomposed in an effect of economic growth, a mobility effect and a cost ...

A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting

At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the grandchild’s overall and cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in a single historical dataset. It has been argued ...

Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on Third Generation Health and Education Outcomes

This paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent findings from the biological literature suggest that age 8-12 is a critical period for male germ cell development. We build on this evidence and investigate whether undernutrition at that age biologically transmits to children and grandchildren. ...

Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts exposed to various famines in the twentieth century. We use two-sample IV estimation to deal with imperfect recollection ...

Betreuung von Schulkindern - Ein weiterer Schlüssel zur Aktivierung ungenutzter Arbeitskräftepotenziale?

Wenn es um die Frage der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf geht, wird meist die Betreuungsproblematik von erwerbswilligen und erwerbstätigen Müttern mit Kleinkindern betrachtet. Diese Analysen zeigen jedoch, dass ein Ausbau der Betreuung von Schulkindern in Deutschland ähnliche Effekte erzielen kann wie die vielfach diskutierte und anlysierte Wirkung der Kleinkindbetreuung. Auf Basis der Daten des ...

Karriere und Persönlichkeit als eine Kerngröße im Führungskräfte-Monitor

Potenziale unfreiwilliger Teilzeit in Deutschland

Working-time political debates often focus on options for flexible and variable working hours. Meanwhile, employees' desire for more time sovereignty is gaining relevance. Although working time preferences and their impact on the German labor market are investigated in numerous studies, findings are inconsistent, varying with the data set, including the formulation and placement of questions in ...

Mehr oder weniger arbeiten? Es kommt darauf an, wie man fragt

Arbeitszeitwünsche von Beschäftigten rücken in der jüngsten Vergangenheit stärker in den Fokus der öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Debatte. Dabei kommen repräsentative Studien für Deutschland hinsichtlich der Frage von Über- und Unterbeschäftigung zu sehr unterschiedlichen bis kontroversen Befunden, deren Ursache nicht allein durch Definitionen und Abgrenzungen der Stichproben zu erklären sind. ...