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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply: Evidence from east and west Germany

Pestel, Nico - 2015

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 …

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Does money change who you are? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of wage increases on personality

Ayaita, Adam - 2022

Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...

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Beyond inequality accounting: Marital sorting and couple labor supply

Pestel, Nico - 2014

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 …

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? An illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption: Efficient, but regressive?

Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013

on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

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Dynamics of income rank volatility: Evidence from Germany and the US

Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals' relative positions in the...

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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?

Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

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Income changes do not influence political participation: Evidence from comparative panel data

Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021

latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large … research on (political) inequality in youth and childhood. …

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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 …

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