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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany

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

lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?

Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022

immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s. …

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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...

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Bounds of unfair inequality of opportunity : theory and evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

differences in social mobility and persistence. -- equality of opportunity ; earnings inequality ; mobility ; circumstances …

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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States

Hufe, Paul; Kobus, Martyna; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul - 2022

Are the United States still a land of opportunity? We provide new insights on this question by invoking a novel measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity has increased by 77% over the time period 1983-2016....

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Equality of Opportunity : East vs. West Germany

Peichl, Andreas - 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...

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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

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 …

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Information frictions among firms and households

Link, Sebastian; Peichl, Andreas; Roth, Christopher; … - 2021

We leverage survey data from Germany, Italy, and the US to document several novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among firms and households. First, firms’ expectations about the central bank policy rate, inflation, and aggregate unemployment are more aligned with...

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

Peichl, Andreas - 2013

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 …

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Exporting and labor demand: Micro-level evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To …

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