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Educational Inequality*
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191073
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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172118
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Earnings Dynamics and Intergenerational Transmission of Skill
Lochner, Lance - 2020
This paper develops and estimates a two-factor model of intergenerational skill transmission when earnings inequality reflects differences in individual skills and other non-skill shocks. We consider heterogeneity in both initial skills and skill growth rates, allowing variation in skill growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482360
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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2009
In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463591
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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"
Tella, Rafael Di - 2008
We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464111
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Happiness Adaptation to Income and to Status in an Individual Panel
Tella, Rafael Di - 2007
Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465494
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Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 1997
prime age men and women in the United States and Germany during the growth years of the 1980s. Despite major differences in …-specific differences among men, while in Germany random shocks are found to persist longer for men. Women in Germany and the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472830
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992 : A Semiparametric Approach
DiNardo, John - 1995
This paper presents a semiparametric procedure to analyze the effects of institutional and labor market factors on recent changes in the U.S. distribution of wages. The effects of these factors are estimated by applying kernel density methods to appropriately 'reweighted' samples. The procedure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473794
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Earnings Inequality in Germany
Abraham, Katharine G. - 1993
these studies' findings, our analysis of micro data for the former West Germany yields virtually no evidence of growth in … bottom half of the earnings distribution led to a narrowing of the overall dispersion of earnings in Germany. Earnings … within either education or age groups. Germany wage setting institutions tend to limit earnings differentials across groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474401
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Vocational Education, Manufacturing, and Income Distribution : International Evidence and Case Studies
Aizenman, Joshua - 2017
regular college attainment. Comparing the US to Germany suggests that pushing more students to BA granting colleges may no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453764