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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2012
differences in social mobility and persistence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548565
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Multidimensional measurement of richness : theory and an application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
children. Mobility between different affluence counts between 2002 and 2007 is rather low and existing changes are mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825579
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Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
Existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has failed to address the question as to how the circumstances and choices of spouses in a couple should be treated. By omitting information relevant to the spouse in IOp estimations, the implicit assumption was full responsibility for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391624
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Equality of opportunity : East vs. West Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labor market integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990.Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391647
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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and similarities in IOp in the light of differences in social mobility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269249
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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith - 2012
differences in social mobility and persistence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106535
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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 - 2010
increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825070
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas - 2010
inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover … household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136651
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is … and predict the effects of output shocks at a disaggregated level. The predicted employment effects are then transposed to … household-level microdata, in order to analyze the incidence of rising unemployment and reduced working hours on poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826267
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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056834