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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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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

War and Science in Ukraine

Ganguli, Ina; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023

We discuss the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science. Using newly collected data, we show that the war has already had significant effects on science in Ukraine: research papers produced by Ukrainian scientists declined by about 10%, approximately 5% of the most prolific...

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Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent

Hager, Sebastian; Schwarz, Carlo; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023

We study how performance metrics affect the allocation of talent. We exploit the introduction of a new measure of scientific performance: citation metrics. For technical reasons, the first citation database only covered citations from certain journals and years. Thus, only a subset of citations...

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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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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...

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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

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 …

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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 …

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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US : new results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical … regions, consistent with complementarity in spouses' leisure in the US versus substitution in spouses' household production in … Europe. -- household labor supply ; elasticity ; taxation ; Europe ; US …

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