entitlements and sheds light on determinants of this behavior. Against the background that educational mobility in Germany is low … former socialist East Germany choose to take up student aid than similar West German students. Finally, in line with …

We present first estimates of rates of non-take-up for social assistance in Germany after the implementation of major …

equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old …. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both …

In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the … rates are much higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany, absolute levels of structural state dependence however are …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation …

When comparing tax benefit systems across Europe, Germany is usually regarded as a country with a high level of taxes … the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax …Deutschland wird häufig ein im europäischen Vergleich überdurchschnittliches Abgabenniveau bescheinigt. Da dies als …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty …. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people’s SWB is negatively correlated … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative …