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Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2021

transitions between labor status or jobs, whereas for those at the top, earnings changes are mainly induced by wage rate growth …

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Cyclical Income Risk in Great Britain

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2019

This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses the role of social insurance policy in mitigating against this risk. We address these issues using the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic...

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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, … - 2022

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us — for the first time — to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find...

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Biased Expectations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from German Survey Data and Implications for the East-West Wage Gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …

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Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings

Gehrke, Britta; Dengler, Thomas - 2022

In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries have used short-time work (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. First, we show that the consumption risk...

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Income inequality in Germany temporarily sinks during crises

Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Kriwoluzky, Alexander - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 46, pp. 349-355

This study is the first to investigate the interdependence of income inequality and business cycles in Germany over the past 40 years. These fluctuations in income inequality are important because they are decisive for designing effective and targeted structural redistributive and stabilization...

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EU immigration has increased Germany's economic browth

Clemens, Marius; Hart, Janine - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 44, pp. 441-449

Immigration to Germany has increased significantly since 2011, primarily due to the immigration of citizens from other euro area countries and those which joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. This increase is mainly attributable to a lack of immigration barriers and the good economic situation on the...

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Wage Risk and the Skill Premium

Slavík, Ctirad - 2020

, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill … premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk increases precautionary savings, thereby boosting capital accumulation … that the rise in wage risk observed between 1967 and 2010 increases the skill premium significantly. This finding is robust …

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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in Real-Time : A Novel Method Applied to the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany

Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2021

The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...

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Uncertainty, Skewness, and the Business Cycle Through the Midas Lens

Castelnuovo, Efrem; Mori, Lorenzo - 2022

We employ a mixed-frequency quantile regression approach to model the time-varying conditional distribution of the US real GDP growth rate. We show that monthly information on the US financial cycle improves the predictive power of an otherwise quarterly-only model. We combine selected quantiles...

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