examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

resources and the perception of social inequality in Germany will be picked out as a central theme. By means of empirical … by the wellbeing indicator income – has increased in the Federal Republic of Germany during the recent past. This is … includes some dangers for the democracy and the social stability in Germany although in an EU-27 perspective – at least in …

multinomial logit based on time use diary data of the German Time Use Study 2001/02. One striking result for Germany: the … deutschen Zeitbudgeterhebung 2001/02. Ein herausragendes Ergebnis für Deutschland: Substitution zwischen Zeit und Einkommen ist …

Several studies have shown that income inequality has risen in Germany until 2005. Less focus was put on the rise of …

This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using …

apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax …

Germany during the period 1999 – 2006. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and implement two alternative …

Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the …