Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

How Risk Averse and how Prudent are Workers?

Analogous to the widely studied concept of precautionary savings, our study contributes to the burgeoning literature on precautionary labor supply behavior when wages are subject to uninsurable wage risk. We estimate the parameters of a dynamic structural model of labor supply of men. We test whether workers are risk averse and prudent in the sense that they increase labor supply in anticipation of ...

How Important is Precautionary Labor Supply?

We quantify the importance of precautionary labour supply defined as the difference between hours supplied in the presence of risk and hours under perfect foresight. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2001 to 2012, we estimate the effect of wage risk on labour supply and test for constrained adjustment of labour supply. We find that married men choose on average about 2.8% of their hours of ...

Getting the Poor to Work: Three Welfare Increasing Reforms for a Busy Germany

We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative reforms that involve employment subsidies to stimulate participation and full-time work, respectively. We ...

The Regional Dynamics of European Electoral Politics: Participation in National and European Contests in the 1990s

Subnational Analyses Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data Archive

Comprehensive evaluation of the Pro Kind home visiting program: A summary of results

This paper provides an overview of the German home visiting program Pro Kind. We conducted a RCT to assess the program effects. A total of 755 women with multiple risk factors were recruited; of those, 394 were assigned to the treatment group. We assessed program influences on family environment, maternal and child health, and child development until the child’s third birthday in regular interviews, ...

Social Inequality & Social Justice: European Welfare States, Conceptions of Social Justice and their Distributive Conequences

Social Inequality, Social Justice and the Life Dimensions Approach

Parent-Child Transfers in Germany - Evidence from Panel Data

Parent-Child-Transfers in Germany: A Study of Magnitude and Motivations

Ziel dieses Beitrags ist die Analyse privater Transfers in Deutschland mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP). Für das Jahr 1995 wird die Summe lebzeitiger Eltern-Kind-Transfers auf etwa 17 Milliarden DM geschätzt. Die ökonometrische Analyse basiert auf zwei Unterstichproben aus dem SOEP: einem Eltern-Datensatz, der Informationen über eine große Zahl von Elternhaushalten enthält, und einem ...