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Germany during the last three decades. Hereby, we take advantage of information contained in 25 waves of the Socio …-Economic Panel. Our analysis shows that in Germany IOP declined immediately after reunification, increased in the first decade of the … individuals that resided in West-Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, whose fathers had a high occupational position, and …
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break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …
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Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use microlevel panel data of German income tax files...
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if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany … increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded …
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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test …
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policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …
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centralized to a market economy and the estimation of plausible counterfactual income streams. Our central result is that 19 …
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(Raumordnungsregionen) in Germany based on the second wave of the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank in …. Although the paper is particularly focused on Germany, the approach proposed is applicable to surveys with a similar data …
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How does a negative labor demand shock impact fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I exploit differential pressure for restructuring across East German industries which led to unexpected, exogenous, and...
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