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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time … in poverty and richness as well and compare them with results that were obtained by a re-weighting procedure. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600923
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly … in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time … in poverty and richness as well and compare them with results that were obtained by a re-weighting procedure. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519438
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Factor Shares and Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Germany 2002-2008
Adler, Martin; Schmid, Kai Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010564002
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Factor shares and income inequality: Empirical evidence from Germany 2002 - 2008
Adler, Martin; Schmid, Kai Daniel - 2012
We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287225
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516287
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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277343
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Why a labour market boom does not necessarily bring down inequality: Putting together Germany's inequality puzzle
Biewen, Martin; Sturm, Miriam - 2021
2005 only stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of inequality despite a booming labour market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590977
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Income Mobility
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128997
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The Evolution of Income Inequality in Germany and Switzerland since the Turn of the Millennium
Grabka, Markus M.; Kuhn, Ursina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased onlymarginally and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787003
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Income mobility
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2013
We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327284