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The Shrinking German Middle Class: Signs of Long-Term Polarization in Disposable Income?

Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: Weekly Report 4 (2008) 4, pp. 21-27

The proportion of middle income earners in Germany has shrunk significantly in recent years: from 62 percent of the total population in the year 2000 to only 54 percent in 2006. Correspondingly, the proportion of the population at the margins of the income distribution has increased as well,...

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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Wealth Inequality on the Rise in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 10, pp. 62-73

percent higher than in 2002. Decisive for this development was an increase in monetary wealth as well as wealth from private … the whole, wealth inequality in Germany has continued to increase since 2002. Within the scope of this development, the …

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Old-Age Pension Entitlements Mitigate Inequality: But Concentration of Wealth Remains High

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 8, pp. 55-64

-age pension systems and growing gaps in earnings histories will be felt - with the risk of increasing poverty among the future …

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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009

alternative private investments, our results indicate that they do not coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other … consideration of all components of private investment income for the purpose of welfare analysis, be they of a monetary or non …

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Wealth distribution within couples

Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...

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Perceived Income Justice Depends on the Economy

Liebig, Stefan; Valet, Peter; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 24, pp. 187-192

At least half of all employees in Germany described their wages in all three survey years under consideration here - 2005, 2007, and 2009 - as just. Still, major changes occurred over this period in how people perceived their earnings. Data from the Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) Study show that...

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Worries across time and age in Germany : bringing together open- and close-ended questions

Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text format. We find that relevant world events influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked...

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Dimensions of quality of life in Germany : measured by plain text responses in a representative survey (SOEP)

Wagner, Gert G.; Bruemmer, Martin; Glemser, Axel; … - 2017

This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like the state of the European Union, long-term...

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