Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...

The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating subjective equivalence scales using "life...

Seit 6 Jahren waren die Aussichten für eine Belebung der Konjunktur nicht mehr so günstig wie 2006. Die positiven Impulse resultieren aus den nach wie vor boomenden Exporten. Achillesferse der Konjunkturentwicklung ist und bleibt jedoch die Binnennachfrage, die in keinem größeren...