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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US … to family and community factors shared by brothers while the corresponding estimates are 43 percent in Germany and 45 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936425
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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens : geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes
Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010 - Vorläufige Fassung
The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of ¿atypical¿ employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasing percentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826582
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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : efficient, but regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013
investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the income distribution in Germany, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241589
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241628
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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude
Hille, Adrian - 2015
music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441643
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Locus of control and low-wage mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013
We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190193
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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2019
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 Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born … 48 per cent in the 1971-75 birth cohort, while it almost did not change in Germany. Overall, absolute but also relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231945
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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2018
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 Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born … 48 per cent in the 1971-75 birth cohort, while it almost did not change in Germany. Overall, absolute but also relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919636
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Income distribution and the fear of crime : evidence from Germany
Acampora, Michelle; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2020 - This version: February 2020
We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170759
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Dynamics of income rank volatility : evidence from Germany and the US
Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017
occur in the economy. Applying this approach to investigate rank volatility in Germany and the US over three decades, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747288