Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Income and wealth inequality after the financial crisis: the case of Germany

The topic of rising income inequality does not only gain in relevance since the two prominent reports by the OECD (Growing unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, Paris 2008; Divided we stand—Why inequality keeps rising, Paris 2011) but rather since the financial crisis. So far there is only scarce empirical evidence–besides a rather broad literature dealing with the US–about the ...

Kapitaldeckung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung: Zur Berechnung der finanziellen Auswirkungen eines Umstieg vom Umlage- auf das Kapitaldeckungssystem

Entries, Exits, and the Dynamics of Employment: Lower Saxony, 1978-1990

Rising In-work Poverty in Times of Activation: Changes in the Distributive Performance of Institutions over Three Decades, Germany 1984–2013

In-work poverty contradicts the belief that a job should provide a decent standard of living. Nevertheless, the share of working poor in most European countries has risen. Studies show that the development of in-work poverty is attributable to changes in the distributive performance of the labour market, households and the welfare state, as measured by their ability to prevent people from falling below ...

Social Insurance and Occupational Mobility

This paper studies how insurance from progressive taxation improves the matching of workers to occupations. We propose an equilibrium dynamic assignment model to illustrate how social insurance encourages mobility. Workers experiment to find their best occupational fit in a process filled with uncertainty. Risk aversion and limited earnings insurance induce workers to remain in unfitting occupations. ...

Future public pensions and changing employment patterns across birth cohorts

We analyse the impacts of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model and a rich data set that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. We account for cohort effects in ...

Income, income, or income? The effects of different income measures on health in a national survey

Background - The effects of six income types (household post-government income, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-weighted household post-government income, individual net income, corrected monthly household income and household net income from wages) on subjective health were compared in order to examine to what extent their effects are different. Methods - Data from the German ...

Chances of Employment in a Population of Women and Men After Surgery of Congenital Heart Disease: Comparisons between Patients and the General Population

Objective. It was examined whether women and men (17–45 years) with operated congenital heart disease differ with respect to chances of employment. Patients were compared with the general population. Design. Patients (n = 314) were classified by type of surgery (curative, reparative, palliative) as indicator of initial severity of disease. The second classification was performed according to a system ...

Life chances after surgery of congenital heart disease: the influence of cardiac surgery on intergenerational social mobility. A comparison between patients and general population data

Nonresponse in Panel Surveys - A Review of Adjustment Techniques