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Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany

Lersch, Philipp M.; Grabka, Markus M.; Rüß, Kilian; … - In: Journal of European Social Policy 31 (2021) 5, pp. 565-579

, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002–17) to examine the level of and inequality in wealth for children … from single-parent families using recentred influence function regression and decomposition analysis. We replicate earlier …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …

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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016

Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …

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A Head-To-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

Boenke, Timm - 2017

We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth – defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States...

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The Joint Distribution of Net Worth and Pension Wealth in Germany

Boenke, Timm - 2016

Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987251

Comparing Wealth - Data Quality of the HFCS

Tiefensee, Anita - 2014

apply a decomposition method suggested by Fairlie (1999, 2005) to identify differences in characteristics as well as …

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Millionaires under the microscope : data gap on top wealth holders closed : wealth concentration higher than presumed

Schröder, Carsten; Bartels, Charlotte; Göbler, Konstantin - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 30/31, pp. 313-322

Individuals with assets in the millions of euros have been underrepresented in population surveys and accordingly little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the existing data gap, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) inte-...

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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States

Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017

We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and...

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Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap

Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus; Sierminska, Eva - 2022

) decomposition show that pension wealth reduces the gap substantially in the lower half of the distribution. At the 90th percentile …

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Born in the land of milk and honey : the impact of economic growth on individual wealth accumulation

Bartels, Charlotte; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2021

Economic growth varies substantially across regions and over time. This paper shows that economic growth in a person's birth place is an important determinant for wealth in adulthood. We exploit a new dataset that oversamples wealthy individuals in Germany and includes information on birth...

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Accounting for Pension Wealth, the Missing Rich and Under-Coverage : A Comprehensive Wealth Distribution for Germany

Bartels, Charlotte; Boenke, Timm; Glaubitz, Rick; … - 2023

This study constructs a comprehensive wealth distribution for Germany to inform debate in Germany and internationally on the distribution of wealth including pension entitlements. We estimate the net present value of pension wealth in Germany in 2012 and 2017 using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)...

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