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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

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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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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Wealth and welfare across generations

Sturrock, David - 2023

Although older generations have substantially more wealth than their recent predecessors did at the same age, younger generations do not. Bringing together UK data on those born between the 1930s and 1980s and a lifecycle model of saving, I quantify whether this is due to changes in preferences...

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