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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...

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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany

Huebener, Mathias - 2019

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level...

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The myth of equal opportunity in Germany?

Consiglio, Valentina S.; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2019

this disadvantage in human capital, social capital as an additional source of inequality often lacks attention. Drawing on …

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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2019

Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...

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Why has income inequality in Germany increased from 2002 to 2011? : a behavioral microsimulation decomposition

Jessen, Robin - 2016

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

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The marginal utility of income

Layard, Peter R. G.; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2008 - Revised version

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …

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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2018

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Income distribution and the fear of crime : evidence from Germany

Acampora, Michelle; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2020 - This version: February 2020

the aggregate level, the main driver is equally income polarization, whereas the standard measure of inequality, the Gini …

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Dynamics of income rank volatility : evidence from Germany and the US

Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals’ relative positions in the...

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