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Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between...
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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
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Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels …) exhibit a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) in response to transitory income shocks, all else being equal. This … designed to account for the empirically observed negative correlation between income levels and income risk. This interaction …
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This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
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In this study we investigate the minimum wage (MW) effects for a German sub-construction sector where the MW bites extraordinary hard by international standards. Within a quasiexperiment we estimate the Quantile Treatment Effects of the MW on the conditional and unconditional distribution of...
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This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
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reduction in homeownership across generations. Lower-income households find it harder to buy housing, and as a result accumulate …
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The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that … on income and hourly pay can be derived. …
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- relative to older borrowers has played a major role in easing the debt repayment burden in the presence of large income shocks …. Notwithstanding historically low interest rates, we show that income shocks are the main factor contributing to mortgage repayment …
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This paper studies the effects of quantitative easing on income and wealth of individual euro area households. The … which key variables affecting household income and wealth are included, such as the unemployment rate, wages, interest rates …-form simulation on micro data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, capturing the income composition, the portfolio …
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