We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us – for the first time – to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …

by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment … social assistance increases aggregate welfare. Income pooling in married households decreases the welfare value of social …

Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian models with sticky nominal wages usually assume that wage-setting unions demand the … unions can demand different hours from different households, directly taking household heterogeneity into account. In this …, wages and inflation to monetary policy shocks becomes notably less pronounced. This attenuation reflects that hours worked …