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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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The short-term distributional effects of the german minimum wage reform

Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - 2017

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The effect of saving subsidies on household saving : evidence from Germany

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...

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Poverty in Germany : statistical inference and decomposition

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010

nonlinear Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is conducted to quantify the separate contribution of regional differences in households …' characteristics to the likelihood of being poor. Estimates from the decomposition indicate that differences in the distributions of … to become a persistent phenomenon. -- Poverty ; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition ; bootstrap ; equivalence scale …

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The German spatial poverty divide : poorly endowed or bad luck?

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2009

-Blinder decomposition to quantify the separate contribution of regional differences in households' characteristics to the probability of … being poor. -- Poverty ; decomposition ; expenditure patterns ; necessities ; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition ; bootstrap …

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