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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for Germany in front of and during the economic crisis 2008-2010. This comprises binary logistic regressions where it is tested whether a person is belonging to a certain income region or not. The units of analysis are differentiated by residential status, nationality, sex, age, household size/household ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2012,
(SOEPpapers 450)
| Jürgen Faik
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The discussion paper corresponds with the presentation of a poster at the 2012 annual conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) in Boston with the title “Measuring and Predicting Individual Well-Being on the Basis of a New Methodical Framework – The Case of Germany 1995-2009”. The paper deals with socioeconomic influences upon the future German personal income ...
Frankfurt/M.:
FaMa - Neue Frankfurter Sozialforschung,
2012,
(FaMa-Diskussionspapier 4/2012)
| Jürgen Faik
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The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the “individual variant” for calculating subjective equivalence scales using “life satisfaction” as a proxy variable for “utility”. The cross-sectional scale estimates are characterised by relatively ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 575)
| Jürgen Faik
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The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding of the role played by language and knowledge of social capital. We use the administrative dataset on dependent employment (WHIP), to estimate a fixed effect model ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2009,
(IZA DP No. 4639)
| Riccardo Faini, Steinar Strom, Alessandra Venturini, Claudia Villosio
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A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the previous literature on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, ...
Brlin:
DIW Berlin,
2018,
(SOEPpapers 959)
| Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, ...
In:
American Economic Review
104 (2014), 7, 2238-2265
| Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich
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This study provides insights on the role of early childhood family environment within the process of preference formation. We start by presenting evidence showing that breastfeeding duration is a valid measure of the quality of early childhood environment. In the main analysis, we then investigate how early childhood environment affects the formation of fundamental economic preferences such as time, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 882)
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach that exploits complementarities between controlled laboratory and representative panel data. In a simple principal–agent experiment, agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. Throughout the experiment ...
In:
Management Science
64 (2018), 4, 1477-1973
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist
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Descriptions and analyses of citizens’ or households’ income have a long tradition in economics. A large body of research has recognized that levels of income and how income is distributed are important contributors to the wealth of nations. Within the broader context of income and its distribution, there has also been a considerable amount of research on the process underlying income distribution ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
132 (2012), 2, 175-203
| Uwe Fachinger, Ralf K. Himmelreicher
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Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) this paper analyses to what extent alternative income sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed effects estimations, we find high individual earnings losses after job displacement and only limited convergence. ...
In:
Labour
34 (2020), 3, 239-276
| Daniel Fackler, Eva Hank