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Minimum wage : many entitled employees in Germany still do not receive it
Fedorets, Alexandra; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 28/29, pp. 223-231
There has been a universal statutory minimum wage in Germany for a good four years, but many employees still do not receive it. This is the finding of new calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which have updated noncompliance with the minimum wage for 2017. Even conservative...
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Distributional effects of subsidizing retirement savings accounts : evidence from Germany
Corneo, Giacomo; Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes - 2015
inequality measures. This is due to two offsetting effects: a progressive one stemming from the subsidy schedule and a regressive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281656
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296302
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299132
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The sensitivity of distributional measures to the reference period of income
Schröder, Carsten - 2012
shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286965
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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 low-wage sector in Germany is larger than previously assumed
Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 14, pp. 117-124
The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on...
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The short-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform
Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - 2017
This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and actual working hours, and monthly earnings. Our descriptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782012
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The short-term distributional effects of the german minimum wage reform
Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - 2017
This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and actual working hours, and monthly earnings. Our descriptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785655
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The Effect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germanys
Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272759