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Better together? Heterogeneous effects of tracking on student achievement
Matthewes, Sönke Hendrik - 2018
. My results show that decreasing the degree of tracking in early secondary school can reduce inequality while increasing …
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Understanding day care enrolment gaps
Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Waights, Sevrin - 2019
We document day care enrolment gaps by family background for children under 3 in Germany. Research demonstrates that children of less-educated or foreign-born parents benefit most from day care, making it important to understand the causes of such enrolment gaps. Using a unique data set that...
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Heterogeneous effects of afterschool care on child development
Schmitz, Laura - 2022
It is often argued that institutionalized after-school care (ASC) can benefit children lacking adequate homework support at home and, hence, foster equality of opportunity. However, despite considerable policy interest, it is unclear whether these afternoon programs are beneficial for child...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2017
In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …, taxes and transfers mitigate around 60% of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is attributable to employment and health …
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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory implications for poverty measurement
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022
Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802563
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Representative Wealth Data for Germany from the German SOEP: The Impact of Methodological Decisions around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva M. - 2007
analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in ?per capita household? terms, wealth … wealth holders (increasing on average by 15%) and also on aggregate wealth (plus 30%). However, with respect to inequality …The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324233
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Rates of return and early retirement disincentives: Evidence from a German pension reform
Lüthen, Holger - 2014
To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pay-as-you-go pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This paper examines the...
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How does maternal pension wealth affect family old-age savings in Germany?
Thiemann, Andreas - 2016
wealth. The regression discontinuity approach exploits two expansions of the child care pension benefit, in 1992 and in 1999 … increase in their pension wealth. From a political point of view, this suggests that the increase in individual pension wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443183
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Profitability of pension contributions: Evidence from real-life employment biographies
Schröder, Carsten - 2010
Micro-econometric intra-cohort profitability analyses of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension contributions are rare. We use representative employment histories of a birth cohort of German PAYG pension insurants retiring in year 2005 to econometrically examine the determinants of the profitability of...
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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households: a five-country perspective
Bicakova, Alena; Sierminska, Eva M. - 2008
This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership … rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … inequality in the four countries correspond to their mortgage take up rates and its distribution across income, reflecting the …
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