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Inheritance in Germany 1911 to 2009 : a mortality multiplier approach
Schinke, Christoph - 2012 - This version: July 2012
We estimate the size of inheritance and gift flows in Germany for selected years over the last century, applying the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578803
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Erbschaftsteuerreform : gleichmäßige Vermögenserfassung und niedrigere Steuersätze statt selektiver Besteuerung
Bach, Stefan; Houben, Henriette; Maiterth, Ralf; … - 2007
Die Erbschaft- und Schenkungsteuer muss grundlegend reformiert werden. Grund- und Betriebsvermögen sollen nach dem Ertragswertverfahren bewertet werden. Das bedeutet eine deutliche Annäherung an die Verkehrswerte, macht jedoch das Besteuerungsverfahren aufwändiger und streitanfälliger. Ein...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630731
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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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The intergenerational effects of unemployment : how parental unemployment affects educational transitions in Germany
Lindemann, Kristina; Gangl, Markus - 2018
This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing upper secondary education. Besides estimating the average treatment effect of parental unemployment on transition outcomes, we also aim to identify the economic, psychological or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869482
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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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Family events and the timing of intergenerationaI transfers
Leopold, Thomas; Schneider, Thorsten - 2010
This research investigates how family events in adult children's lives influence the timing of their parents' financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826571
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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes
Zumbuehl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775642
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He's a chip off the old block : the persistency of occupational choices among generations
Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to assess if parents exert an influence on the occupation choices of their children. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistency of occupational decisions across fathers and children using nested and conditional logit models. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756557
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415678
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A new look at intergenerational mobility in Germany compared to the US
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2014 - This version: September 2014
Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415965