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Horizontal equity in the German tax-benefit system : a simulation approach for employees
Bönke, Timm; Eichfelder, Sebastian - 2010
We analyze the distributive justice of the combined burden of taxes, social security contributions and public transfers on employee households. In order to investigate whether the treatment of families by the aggregate tax-benefit system can be regarded as "fair" we compare the equivalent...
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Dynastic inequality compared : multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany
Neidhöfer, Guido; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test …
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of … that there exists positive skill selection among recently arrived refugees in Germany. …
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014
by the Italian Embassy in Germany. In line with previous studies, we confirm substantial inequality of educational …
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The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Germany : a machine learning approach
Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020
Germany during the last three decades. Hereby, we take advantage of information contained in 25 waves of the Socio …-Economic Panel. Our analysis shows that in Germany IOP declined immediately after reunification, increased in the first decade of the … individuals that resided in West-Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, whose fathers had a high occupational position, and …
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