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In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …
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We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
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birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
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Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...
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We present first estimates of rates of non-take-up for social assistance in Germany after the implementation of major …
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addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the …
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. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both …
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Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for...
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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 …
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