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Redistribution and Insurance in the German Welfare State
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
against income risks. But studies measuring redistribution often focus only on a one-year period. Using German SOEP data from …-individual component. Results show that annual inequality is higher than long-term inequality, but redistribution is also larger annually …. In the long-term, the German welfare state clearly gives priority to insurance over redistribution. This gets even more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601061
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600923
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013347613
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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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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 the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601037
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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 … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912135
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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
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277156
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519438
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600937