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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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provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and …In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …
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provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and …In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …
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inequality measures. This is due to two offsetting effects: a progressive one stemming from the subsidy schedule and a regressive …
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, 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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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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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
According to Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, inequality in gross monthly earnings in Germany increased significantly … being driven by higher hourly wage inequality, but rather by working hours: In recent years, employees with a high hourly … employees been able to work their desired number of hours, the rise in inequality would have been more moderate. A better work …
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facilities. The redistributive effects of the feed-in tariff are evaluated by means of various inequality indices. All the … inequality measures indicate that Germany's feed-in tariff is mildly regressive. …
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sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of the results. -- Inequality ; equivalence scale …
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