Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Family Tax Splitting: A Microsimulation of its Potential Labour Supply and Intra-household Welfare Effects in Germany

Social Identity and Competitive Behaviour Experimental evidence from East and West Germany

We investigate the impact of gender identity on competitive and risk-taking behaviour of women and men in Germany. In a choice experiment, we compare the decision behaviour between individuals whose gender identities have been made salient through priming techniques and a control group of untreated individuals. All participants make choices for a set of 23 binary options of payment schemes for a maze ...

Measuring Income Inequality in Euroland

Absent from Work? The Impact of Household and Work Conditions in Germany

This contribution investigates sickness absences of German men and women from a longitudinal perspective. The article tests hypotheses on household context and paid working conditions as determinants for men’s and women’s absences from employment. The empirical analysis is based on selected waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) between 1985 and 2001. The results of ordered probit estimations ...

The wage gap and the leisure gap for double earner couples

The Life-Cycle Hypothesis Revisited: Evidence on Housing Consumption after Retirement

According to the life-cycle theory of consumption and saving, foreseeable retirement events should not reduce consumption. Whereas some consumption expenditures may fall when goods are self-produced (given higher leisure after retirement), this argument applies especially to housing consumption which can hardly be substituted by home production. We test this hypothesis using micro data for Germany ...

New spouse, same chores? The division of household labor in consecutive unions

This article investigates domestic sphere investments, that is, housework and childcare time, of spouses in two consecutive relationships and aims to identify potential sources of variation. Economic reasoning would predict a learning effect from one partnership to the next, and hence less specialization in the domestic sphere in the second relationship. Prevailing gender norms or institutions, on ...

Trends in Intragenerational Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the United States (1984-2006)

Using the Shorrocks R, we compare trends in intragenerational income mobility for the western states of Germany and the United States (1984 – 2006) and test the sensitivity of our results to the starting point and number of years considered. We find that our mobility estimates do not converge to a constant over time so the starting year chosen for the analysis matters. We conclude that income mobility ...

Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the period measured. We argue that a great social transformation - German reunification - abruptly and permanently altered economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over the entire period 1984-2006, we find the ...

The Effects of Union Dissolution on the Economic Resources of Men and Women: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States, 1985–2013

We analyze the consequences of union dissolution on the economic resources of men and women in the United States and Germany over three decades, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and another international survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel, which was modeled after the PSID. Measured either by family size–adjusted “pregovernment” or “postgovernment” incomes (incomes to men and women ...