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In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing lifetime earnings between individuals with different skill endowments and by providing individuals with insurance against lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle model, we find that redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system offsets around half of the inequality ...
München und Berlin:
Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190,
2019,
(Discussion Paper No. 188)
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria Prowse
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This paper presents non-take-up rates of benefits from the German Income Support for Job Seekers scheme, called Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II ). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based on data from the Socio-economic Panel for the years 2005 to 2014. To ensure the quality of the results, feasible upper and lower bounds of nontake-up are shown ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(Diskussionspapier 1793)
| Michelle Harnisch
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After arriving in a new country, refugees are typically dependent on professional support to re-establish their livelihood. However, it is well documented that refugees face barriers when seeking access to services aimed at facilitating their settlement. This study examines refugees’ support service needs, their actual utilization, and investigates the impact of social and human capital on service ...
In:
Journal of International Migration and Integration
24 (2023), 1, 271-312
| Ellen Heidinger
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This paper investigates the stability and dynamics of social relationships in an attempt to ascertain the conditions under which relationships are stable and the factors that bring about changes. The analysis employs the data of 13,530 participants in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) representative assessments of 2011 and 2016. In order to explain stability and dynamics in the relationships, we took ...
In:
American Journal of Humanities and Social Science (AJHSS)
23 (2021), 42-65
| Marina Hennig, Steffen Kohl, Aimée T. Booh
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Background Evidence on the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and infections with SARS-CoV-2 is still limited as most of the available studies are ecological in nature. This is the first German nationwide study to examine differences in the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections according to SEP at the individual level.Methods The ‘CORONA-MONITORING bundesweit’ (RKI-SOEP) study is a seroepidemiological ...
In:
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
76 (2022), 4, 350-353
| Jens Hoebel, Markus M Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Sebastian Haller, Hannelore Neuhauser, Benjamin Wachtler, Lars Schaade, Stefan Liebig, Claudia Hövener, Sabine Zinn
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We examine the relationship between parenting activities and centre-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using centre-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we find that differences in the time spent on specific activities such as reading, talking, and playing with the child are relatively small or zero. The pattern of results ...
In:
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
84 (2022), 6, 1356-1379
| Jonas Jessen, Christa Katharina Spieß, Sevrin Waights
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This study applies a machine learning (ML) approach to around 400,000 observations from the German Socio-Economic Panel to assess the relation between life satisfaction and age. We show that with our ML-based approach it is possible to isolate the effect of age on life satisfaction across the lifecycle without explicitly parameterizing the complex relationship between age and other covariates—this ...
In:
Scientific Reports
12 (2022), 1, 5263
| Micha Kaiser, Steffen Otterbach, Alfonso Sousa-Poza
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We study the impact of a recent curriculum reform introducing mandatory economic education in higher-track secondary schools in Southwest Germany. The curriculum reform provides the opportunity to leverage the exogenous variation in exposure to economic education relative to the previous cohort not affected by the reform. One year after exposure to the mandate, we observe positive treatment effects ...
Kiel, Hamburg:
Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft (ZBW),
2021,
(EconStore Working Paper)
| Tim Kaiser, Luis Oberrauch
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This article examines how contact with perceived foreigners affects natives’ attitudes towards immigration. Using six waves of individual level panel data from Germany (2007–2017), we find that natives’ reported mutual visits with foreigners reduce worries about immigration. However, the results do not imply an increase in this effect in the course of repeated contact. Our analyses also consider the ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 2, 189-201
| Samir Khalil, Elias Naumann
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Since decades, only one fourth of German households invest in shares. One exception was during the three IPOs from 1996 to 2000 of the Deutsche Telekom, which gave Germans a taste to enter the stock market. However, the fall in the share price shortly after the second IPO, followed by corruption scandals of the company, put an end to their enthusiasm. The present study based on SOEP data shows that ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
11 (2021), 25, 177-183
| Chi Hyun Kim, Alexander Kriwoluzky