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Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600827
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Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018726
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Locus of control and low-wage mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013
We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322841
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Locus of Control and Low-Wage Mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896228
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292524
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The (short-term) individual welfare consequences of an alcohol ban
Petilliot, René - 2018
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the (short-term) welfare consequences of an alcohol ban. Using subjective well-being data to proxy individual welfare, I apply a regression discontinuity design where the date of the implementation of the ban in the German federal state of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902255
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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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Individual poverty paths and the stability of control-perception
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015
This paper investigates whether individual control-perception affects the probability of becoming poor, and vice versa, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related traits underly many idiosyncratic determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379817
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Explaining rising Income inequality in Germany, 1991-2010
Schmid, Kai Daniel; Stein, Ulrike - 2013
In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim … to identify the main drivers of this rise in income inequality since the early 1990s. We provide a broad overview of the … circumstances under which inequality evolved, i.e. which changes in the German economy are most likely to provide an explanation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322845
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Spitzeneinkommen zwischen ökonomischem und normativem Marktversagen: Marktorientierte und soziale Legitimation von Topmanager-Gehältern
Krämer, Hagen - 2013
Die Ungleichheit der Einkommensverteilung hat nicht zuletzt deshalb stark zugenommen, weil die Bezieher von Spitzeneinkommen überproportional hohe Einkommenszuwächse erzielten. Vor allem der mittlerweile immense Abstand der Gehälter von Topmanagern zu den von Normalverdienern wird in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332144