This paper investigates the redistributive impact of private and public childcare provision and education on children … administrative data from the German Federal Statistical Office, extended disposable income inequality is found to be significantly … lower than disposable cash income inequality at the five percent level across all years. However, the extension does not …

This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …

Existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has failed to address the question as to how the circumstances …

and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …

household and to what extent taxes and benefits mitigate (or indeed exacerbate) any inequality of income between men and women …

dimension. According to these recent findings, not only the level but also the field of education has to be taken into account …. The field of education determines a great deal about labor market options and influences opportunities to combine … event history models are applied to examine the impact of the field of education on the transition to parenthood, looking at …

; unemployment ; marriage ; divorce ; health ; religion ; policy …

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …