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Corporate tax avoidance has regularly been accused of aggravating income inequalities. Yet, systematic evidence on this matter is still lacking. To fill this gap, the present paper explores the effect of profit shifting on employee pay among S&P 1500 companies. The study shows that its effect...
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In den vergangenen Jahren waren von Massenentlassungen größerer Firmen nicht mehr weit überwiegend Geringqualifizierte, sondern zunehmend auch Personen mit abgeschlossener beruflicher Ausbildung, einschließlich solcher mit Hochschulabschluss, und nicht mehr nur Arbeitnehmer im produzierenden...
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Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for...
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The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of ¿atypical¿ employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasing percentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against...
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This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … inequality reveals the effects of Germany's slightly older population and smaller household sizes, as well as the impact of …
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We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
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applied to socio-demographic stratification in Germany to exemplarily demonstrate the power of this new approach. All in all …
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We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...
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This paper examines the evolution of top incomes in Germany from 1907-2007 with a special focus on past decades. A more …
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integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany. …
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