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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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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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Changes in working hours are driving earnings inequality

Beckmannshagen, Mattis; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 32/34, pp. 195-201

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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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 …

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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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