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In this article, we present a model that can account for the changes in the Germancurrent account balance since the 2000s. Our results suggest that an array of struc-tural tax and labor market reforms (Agenda 2010), population aging and pensionreforms led to an increase in the household savings...
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Despite the importance for socio-economic outcomes, there is an ongoing debate about the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. By disentangling age, period and cohort influences on personality traits, this paper adds to the existing empirical contributions, which often focus on...
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We study whether one reason behind female underrepresentation in leadership is that female leaders are less effective at coordinating followers' actions. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less successful than males in persuading followers to...
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according to income levels and gender. This paper is based on the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) carried out by the … (MAs) in the country, than the in the other MAs. Second, workers in the poorest population segment (1st income decile … times. However, these worsening conditions have been more pronounced in the 1st income decile and especially the 7th-10th …
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This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
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We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … than earnings inequality. Regarding income dynamics, entrepreneurs’ income changes are more dispersed, less skewed, less …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us – for the first time – to offer a complete picture of the …
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Studying lifetime income inequality for individuals who belong to the same cohort can contribute valuable insights that …, over the cohorts born between 1935 and 1972, lifetime earnings inequality has strongly increased. For male baby …-boomers, lifetime inequality is predicted to be 85 % larger than in the case of their fathers. This is larger than the increase of …
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