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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

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622210

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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Routes to the top

König, Johannes; Schluter, Christian; Schröder, Carsten - 2023

Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a...

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Improving the coverage of the top-wealth population in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Schröder, Carsten; Bartels, Charlotte; Göbler, Konstantin - 2020

We have developed and implemented a new sampling strategy to better represent very wealthy individuals in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our strategy is based on the empirical regularity that the very wealthy have at least part of their assets invested in businesses, and that businesses...

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Wealth creators or inheritors? : unpacking the gender wealth gap from bottom to top and young to old

Bartels, Charlotte; Sierminska, Eva; Schröder, Carsten - 2024

There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that...

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