This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies,...

Thematic Workshops: Workshop 1 – Areas of concern and proposals for less unequal worlds Workshop 2 – Unequal access to “invisible or online” education for those who already suffered from unequal access to “visible or in-person” education Workshop 3 – The Pandemic and the growing...

A mixed-frequency semi-structural model is used for estimating unobservable quantities such as the output gap, the Phillips curve and the NAIRU in real time. We consider two specifications: in one the output gap is observed as the official CBO measure, in the other is unobserved and derived via...

Co-authors: Domenico Giannone (Amazon.com) and Anna Kovner (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) We study the relationship between bank capital ratios and the distribution of future real GDP growth. Growth in the aggregate bank capital ratio corresponds to a smaller left tail of GDP—smaller...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

Der geplante Workshop soll empirisch Forschenden in Deutschland und darüber hinaus die Möglichkeit geben sich über die nicht-binäre Erhebungen von Geschlecht auszutauschen. Hierbei sollen unterschiedliche Operationalisierungen und Erhebungsstrategien diskutiert und Erfahrungen ausgetauscht...

The ERSA Bridging the Divide in Economics initiative focuses on representativity and diversity in the South African economics profession. Topics: 1.There are inequalities across space, race and gender that influence university degree choice. 2.These inequalities are present at all levels of...

This online two-day workshop-series offers a well-grounded and practically oriented introduction to the data of the Socio-Economic Panel Study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives around the world, it is becoming clear that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. Sociologist Jutta Allmendinger recently claimed the pandemic will set Germany back 30 years in terms of the...