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

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 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

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Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap

Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2022

We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of women and men, we are able to identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for...

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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Earnings Assimilation of Post-reunification East German Migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and …

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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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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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

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

-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … effects to increase over time. The analyses presented here, exemplified for Germany, make a clear case for the joint …

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