Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Zur Messung des Berufsprestiges: Aktualisierung der Magnitude-Prestigeskala auf die Berufsklassifikation ISCO88

Zufriedenheit in Lebensbereichen (Kap. 15.1)

Caregiving, Welfare States and Mothers' Poverty

Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite the disincentive effect ...

Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patterns

Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen. Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz

Der Übergangsprozess von Arbeitslosigkeit in Beschäftigung wird vom Reservationslohn und den Suchanstrengungen der Arbeitslosen bestimmt. Das optimale Suchverhalten hängt dabei sowohl von institutionellen Gegebenheiten wie der Höhe und Dauer von Transferzahlungen und „klassischen“ Charakteristika wie Alter und Bildung als auch von selten beobachteten Faktoren wie Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und subjektiven ...

Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" Reform Using a True Natural Experiment

Increasing work incentives for people with low income is a common topic in the policy debate across European countries. The ‘Mini-Job’ reform in Germany had a similar motivation. We carry out an ex-post evaluation to identify the short-run effects of this reform. Our identification strategy uses an exogenous variation in the interview months in the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which allows us ...

Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers to Tertiary Education Students in Seven European Countries

Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services across the income distribution. We combine OECD information on spending per student in particular levels of the education system with micro data from nationwide income surveys to track the allocation of ...

Poverty Dynamics in Europe. A Multilevel Discrete-Time Recurrent Hazard Analysis

Does Money Buy Immigrant Happiness?

The relationship between income and happiness for international immigrants has been relatively unexplored. A handful of cross-sectional studies has shown that income and happiness are positively correlated after migration, and that wealthier immigrants are more satisfied with their post-migration lives than are their less privileged peers. What is unclear is if the link between income and happiness ...