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In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600912
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … calculations are correlated with the macroeconomic variables economic growth, inflation, and general unemployment. At the peak of … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286914
correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been … macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … macroeconomic variables inflation, economic growth, and unemployment are at first connected with the German demographic ageing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290732
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … calculations are correlated with the macroeconomic variables economic growth, inflation, and general unemployment. At the peak of … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128947
correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been … macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … macroeconomic variables inflation, economic growth, and unemployment are at first connected with the German demographic ageing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128974
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636406
The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the individual variant for calculating subjective equivalence scales using life satisfaction as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332020
This article is concerned with the development of wage inequality in the USA and Germany. Base data for the USA is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600682
To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of … inequality between skill groups for Germans relative to immigrants. The returns to skill for the highest educational attainment … are higher for Germans across the wage distribution compared to immigrants. But within-group inequality for the group with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600759
of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self … indices. Moreover, with the use of SF12, a generic health measure, the inequality indicator is reduced by a factor of ten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600855