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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 receive it. This is the finding of new calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which have updated noncompliance with the minimum wage for 2017. Even conservative...
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296295
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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 …
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Inequality and the time structure of earnings: Evidence from Germany
Schröder, Carsten; Golan, Yolanda; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 3, pp. 349-409
This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …
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Development of top incomes in Germany since 2001
Bartels, Charlotte; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 1/2, pp. 3-8
What share of total income in Germany is owned by the country's top income earners and how has this share developed over the past decade? Answers to these questions can be found both in representative survey data such as the longitudinal Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and in administrative...
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Zur Entwicklung von Top-Einkommen in Deutschland seit 2001
Bartels, Charlotte; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 1, pp. 3-9
Wie hoch ist der Einkommensanteil der Spitzenverdiener am Gesamteinkommen in Deutschland, und wie hat sich dieser im vergangenen Jahrzehnt entwickelt? Antworten darauf findet man sowohl in repräsentativen Befragungsdaten wie der Langzeitstudie Soziooekonomisches Panel (SOEP) als auch in...
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Fast methods for jackknifing inequality indices
Karoly, Lynn; Schröder, Carsten - 2013
time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322505
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324347