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The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

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Rational poverty or poor rationality? : the take-up of social assistance benefits

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2000

In several countries social assistance dependence has been increasing since the 1980s. After surveying the theoretical and empirical take-up literature, this study presents estimates of recent rates of non take-up of social assistance benefits. Once methodological shortcomings of prior...

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Item non-response on income and wealth questions

Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002

After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed...

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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11

Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016

We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...

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Wage mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the...

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Understanding rising income inequality in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record … inequality in employment outcomes, as well as of idiosyncratic changes such as tax reforms. -- income inequality ; poverty …

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Who are the chronic poor? : Evidence on the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany

Biewen, Martin (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Measuring state dependence in individual poverty status : are there feedback effects to employment decisions and household composition?

Biewen, Martin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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