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The selection of pay referents : potential patterns and impacts on life satisfaction
Schneider, Simone - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826564
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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens : geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes
Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010 - Vorläufige Fassung
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826582
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The evolution of income inequality in Germany and Switzerland since the turn of the millennium
Grabka, Markus M.; Kuhn, Ursina - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578800
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Factor shares and income inequality : empirical evidence from Germany 2002 - 2008
Adler, Martin; Schmid, Kai D. - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578866
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A new framework of measuring inequality : variable equivalence scales and group-specific well-being limits ; sensitivity findings for German personal income distribution 1995 - 200...
Faik, Jürgen - 2011
applied to socio-demographic stratification in Germany to exemplarily demonstrate the power of this new approach. All in all … Äquivalenzskalen beinhaltet, auf die soziodemografische Schichtung in Deutschland bezogen, um die Relevanz dieses neuen Ansatzes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357434
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Life satisfaction, household income and personality theory
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009557653
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Completing the bathtub? : the development of top incomes in Germany, 1907 - 2007
Anselmann, Christina; Krämer, Hagen - 2012
This paper examines the evolution of top incomes in Germany from 1907-2007 with a special focus on past decades. A more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009557697
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Equality of opportunity : East vs. West Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391647
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Bank sucht Frau
Hamacher, Eli - In: Die Bank (2015) 4, pp. 64-70
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512017
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Deindustrialization and the polarization of household incomes : the example of urban agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin - 2015
rural regions. The income polarization in Germany is likely to have multiple causes, some of which are directly linked to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519458