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Rising wage inequality in Germany: Increasing heterogeneity and changing selection into full-time work
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; de Lazzer, Jakob - 2017
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745882
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; de Lazzer, Jakob - 2017
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786922
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Inequality trends in the German income distribution
Biewen, Martin - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 275-283
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001396798
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The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality
Biewen, Martin - 2002
Germany in the eighties and nineties. Special emphasis is given to the separation of permanent and transitory components, the … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436290
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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002
across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437003
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438447
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Who are the chronic poor? : evidence on the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany
Biewen, Martin - 2003 - This version: 08 May 2002
Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany … Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438521
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Potential parenthood and career progression of men and women : a simultaneous hazards approach
Biewen, Martin; Seifert, Stefanie - 2016
We analyze individual career transitions of men and women in Germany. Our particular focus is on the association of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502655
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Life-cycle educational choices : evidence for two German cohorts
Biewen, Martin; Tapalaga, Madalina - 2016
We study life-cycle educational transitions in an education system characterized by early tracking and institutionalized branches of academic and vocational training but with the possibility to revise earlier decisions at later stages. Our model covers all major transitions ranging from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452037
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The role of hours changes for the increase in German earnings inequality
Biewen, Martin; Plötze, Daniela - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 239 (2019) 2, pp. 277-304
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023182