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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo Emilio; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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Unfair Pay and Health

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...

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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection

Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … implement the decomposition methodologies of Fields (2003) and Yun (2006). I find that during the sub-period 1999-2002 each of … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality …

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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …

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Towards a Multidimensional Poverty Index for Germany

Suppa, Nicolai - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual framework, I apply the Alkire-Foster method using German panel data. I suggest new operationalizations for two dimensions: social participation and practical reason, the latter...

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Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences

Schurer, Stefanie - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle patterns in the socioeconomic gradient of self-reported risk preferences. Tolerance to risk drops...

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Positional Income Concerns: Prevalence and Relationship with Personality and Economic Preferences

Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario; Pannenberg, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper presents detailed evidence about who compares to whom in terms of relative income. We rely on representative survey data on the importance of income comparisons vis-a-vis seven reference groups, allowing us to exploit within-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and...

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Die Bewertung von Erwerbseinkommen: methodische und inhaltliche Analysen zu einer Vignettenstudie im Rahmen des SOEP-Pretest 2008

Sauer, Carsten; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, Thomas; Liebig, … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

, which has its origins in the field of justice research and is used in particular in the measurement of income justice. We …

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Demografie und Ungleichheit: der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly … change in income inequality. It appears that inequality would also have increased without this demographic trend. But its …

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