We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this integrated data set is that it encompasses the whole spectrum of...

Within the German welfare system, heating expenditures of recipients are in general fully covered by the government. This paper empirically tests for the hypothesis that households receiving welfare payments turn to over consumption of residential space heating. We use microdata from two...

Die aus der angloamerikanischen Arbeitskultur stammenden Personalmanagementkonzepte des Human Resource Management (HRM) gewinnen auch in Deutschland an Einfluss. Die Autorinnen der Studie stellen Ursprünge und aktuelle Ausprägungen der Konzepte vor und gehen zwei strategischen Fokussierungen...

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...