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German Male Income Volatility 1984 to 2008: Trends in Permanent and Transitory Income Components and the Role of the Welfare State
Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010
Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600967
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912135
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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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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795302
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German Male Income Volatility 1984 to 2008: Trends in Permanent and Transitory Income Components and the Role of the Welfare State
Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685267
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Changes in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany during a Period of Rising Wage Inequality 1999-2006: Was it Discrimination in the Returns to Human Capital?
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
industries, company sizes and occupational positions and to changes in discrimination in the returns to job-specific training. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600935
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Discrimination in hiring based on potential and realized fertility: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Fernandes, Ana; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2019
Due to conventional gender norms, women are more likely to be in charge of childcare than men. From an employer's perspective, in their fertile age they are also at "risk" of pregnancy. Both factors potentially affect hiring practices of firms. We conduct a large-scale correspondence test in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027095
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Beyond conventional wage discrimination analysis: Assessing comprehensive wage distributions of males and females using structured additive distributional regression
Sohn, Alexander - 2015
In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive framework for analysing wage discrimination. This framework assesses wage … discrimination on the grounds of conditional wage distributions (rather than just conditional means), regards the whole population …" (rather than a definition based on payment). Examining wage discrimination with respect to gender in Germany, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439788
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The feminization of occupations and change in wages: A panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye...
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Das Glück der Migranten: Eine Lebenslaufanalyse zum subjektiven Wohlbefinden von Migranten der ersten Generation in Deutschland
Brockmann, Hilke - 2012
How happy are first-generation immigrants in Germany today? How do patterns of formal or informal discrimination affect … subjective well-being of immigrants has declined continuously between 1984 and 2008. Social discrimination has a negative effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290730