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Neues DIW-Modell kann Einkommensverteilung am aktuellen Rand vorhersagen: Ungleichheit dürfte in diesem Jahr leicht zunehmen
Bönke, Timm; Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Pagenhardt, Laura - In: DIW Wochenbericht 90 (2023) 24, pp. 326-332
Die ungleiche Verteilung der Arbeitseinkommen in Deutschland ist regelmäßig ein heiß diskutiertes Thema in Politik und Gesellschaft. Das Problem dabei: Relevante Daten für deren Berechnung liegen meist erst mit großer zeitlicher Verzögerung von teilweise mehr als zwei Jahren vor....
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New DIW Berlin model can nowcast the current income distribution: Inequality likely to slightly increase in 2023
Bönke, Timm; Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Pagenhardt, Laura - In: DIW Weekly Report 13 (2023) 43/44, pp. 283-289
DIW Berlin comes in: A new forecast model is making it possible to make statements about the current state of inequality … gained: Following declining inequality up until 2021, primarily between 2010 and 2020, the new DIW Berlin model forecasts an … interruption in the trend in 2022 and 2023. Overall, labor income inequality is predicted to have increased slightly over the …
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DIW-Konjunkturprognose: Aussichten reichen von wolkig bis heiter
Bönke, Timm; Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Baldi, Guido; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 90 (2023) 50, pp. 703-742
Die Erholung der deutschen Wirtschaft wird zur Geduldsprobe. Im dritten Quartal dieses Jahres lief es schlechter als erwartet - vor allem, weil die privaten Haushalte trotz steigender Löhne und sinkender Inflation ihr Geld nach wie vor nur zurückhaltend ausgeben. Der private Konsum und auch...
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DIW Berlin economic forecast: Forecast ranges from cloudy to bright
Bönke, Timm; Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Baldi, Guido; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 13 (2023) 50/52, pp. 305-313
The recovery of the German economy is becoming an exercise in patience. In the third quarter of 2023 the economy fared worse than expected, in particular because private households continued to spend their money conservatively despite climbing wages and falling inflation. Both private...
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The broken elevator: Declining absolute mobility of living standards in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Lüthen, Holger - 2024
higher income inequality contributed similarly to these trends. …
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-28, pp. 1-43
Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality … rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …
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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299132
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307821