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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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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2011

countries. We discuss the cross-country differences and similarities in IOp in the light of di¤erences in social mobility and …

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

Peichl, Andreas - 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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Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models

Peichl, Andreas - 2010

When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to...

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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 - 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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The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand : A Meta-Regression Analysis

Lichter, Andreas - 2014

Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...

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Documentation Izaψmod V3.0 : The IZA Policy Simulation Model

Loeffler, Max - 2014

uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer … the budget of the individual household. This includes taxes on income and consumption, social security contributions …

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Documentation Izaψmod : The IZA Policy Simulation Model

Peichl, Andreas - 2010

uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144939