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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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Labor markets during the covid-19 crisis : a preliminary view
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...
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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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Manpower constraints and corporate policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2020
their employment in the following year. Manpower constraints vary substantially over time and across industries, being …
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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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A temporary VAT cut as unconventional fiscal policy
Bachmann, Ruediger; Born, Benjamin; Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; … - 2021
We exploit the unexpected announcement of an immediate, temporary VAT cut in Germany in the second half of 2020 as a natural experiment to study the spending response to unconventional fiscal policy. We use survey and scanner data on households' consumption expenditures and their perceived...
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Fiscal policy and households' inflation expectations : evidence from a randomized control trial
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2021
primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate this higher inflation. Are household inflation expectations sensitive …
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