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

Ayaita, Adam - 2022

nationally representative panel data (N = 1,955 individuals). The results show no significant effects of relative wage increases …

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

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2010. We find sizeable differences in the characteristics of the …

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of … estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which additionally allows identifying an upper bound. We illustrate our approach …

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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world

Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018

annual redistribution in welfare states of different types. Exploiting panel data from the Cross-National Equivalent File …

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

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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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Punching up or punching down? How stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany

Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023

Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...

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

Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021

on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income … 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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Nominal or real? The impact of regional price levels on satisfaction with life

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2013

We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of life satisfaction. Previous work, however, has only studied the impact of nominal income. We use...

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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.

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