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Nearly 1.1 million people in Germany use food banks, single and separated parents in particular at an above-average frequency
Grabka, Markus M.; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 39, pp. 239-244
Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of …
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Wealth distribution within couples
Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German socio-economic panel study. In married and cohabiting couples...
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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016
of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany. …
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Fertility effects of child benefits
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2016
We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525918
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Income and wealth inequality after the financial crisis : the case of Germany
Grabka, Markus M. - 2015
paper we focus on the short-term distributional effects in Germany, as this country was one of the OECD countries which had … the German Socio Economic Panel which is a representative longitudinal survey of private households in Germany. This … in Germany. Our main finding is that we do not find any significant distributional changes during the Great Recession …
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Wealth distribution within couples
Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - In: Review of Economics of the Household 13 (2015) 3, pp. 459-486
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Wealth changes and their impact on subjective well-being
Halbmeier, Christoph; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Wealth(s) and subjective well-being, (pp. 401-414). 2019
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Transitioning towards more equality? : wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time
Sierminska, Eva; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Grabka, Markus M. - 2019
gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individual level microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022717
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Fertility effects of child benefits
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017
We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647666
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Minimum wage : many entitled employees in Germany still do not receive it
Fedorets, Alexandra; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 28/29, pp. 223-231
There has been a universal statutory minimum wage in Germany for a good four years, but many employees still do not …
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