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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …
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Data and Model Cross-Validation to Improve Accuracy of Microsimulation Results: Estimates for the Polish Household Budget Survey
Myck, Michal; Najsztub, Mateusz - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
representativeness from the point of view of microsimulation analysis. We find important discrepancies between the data weighted with … the point of view of the accuracy of microsimulation results and we show that using a combination of demographic … calibration targets with several economic status variables or tax identifiers from the microsimulation model substantially …
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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes …
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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963737
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Take It or Leave It: (Non-) Take-up Behavior of Social Assistance in Germany
Kayser, Hilke Almut; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
Basierend auf den Mikro-Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels untersuchen wir Determinanten der Nichtinanspruchnahme von Sozialhilfe in Deutschland. Die Schätzung einer Nichtinanspruchnahmequote ("Dunkelziffer") von über 60 Prozent zeigt deutliche Unterschiede für verschiedene...
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To Claim or Not to Claim: Estimating Non-take-up of Social Assistance in Germany and the Role of Measurement Error
Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) in Germany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069050
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A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt?: Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
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GEE Estimation of a Two-Equation Panel Data Model: An Analysis of Wage Dynamics and the Incidence of Profit-Sharing in West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus; Spieß, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
We propose a generalized estimating equations approach to the analysis of the mean and the covariance structure of a bivariate time series process of panel data with mixed continuous and discrete dependent variables. The approach is used to jointly analyze wage dynamics and the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068845
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Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany
Myck, Michal; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
There is by now a lot of evidence showing a sharp increase in cross-sectional wage and earnings inequality during the … to 2006, we do not find unambiguous empirical support for the frequent claims that recent increases in inequality have … been driven mainly by permanent disparities. From 1994 on, permanent inequality increases continuously, peaks in 2001 but …
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Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe
Danzer, Alexander M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will increasingly challenge the developing world. This paper...
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