microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …

We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher … students had to repay the full loan until 1990. Thereafter, 50 percent of the student aid has been offered as a non …

Existing research has found an inverse relationship between urban density and the degree of income inequality within … metropolitan areas, suggesting that, as cities spread out, they become increasingly segregated by income. This paper examines this …. The findings indicate that income inequality - defined by the variance of the log household income distribution - does …

We reassess the convergence properties of the cross-country distribution of income and its determinants using the …

This paper offers a descriptive empirical analysis of the geographic pattern of income inequality within a sample of …-level household income into two parts: one associated with the degree of variation among household incomes within neighborhoods … neighborhoods. Consistent with previous work, the results reveal that the vast majority of a city’s overall income inequality - at …

This article discusses the trade-offs associated with study designs that involve random assignment of students within …