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The role of rental income, real estate and rents for inequality in Germany
Bartels, Charlotte; Schroeder, Carsten - 2020
We quantify the contribution of rental income to pre- and post-government equivalent household income inequality and of …, housing ownership and rental income particularly increased in large municipalities and urban areas; that rental income … explains an increasing share of income inequality; and that the wealth inequality contribution of primary residence has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014459461
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Income, consumption and wealth inequality in Germany: Three concepts, three stories?
Bartels, Charlotte; Schroeder, Carsten - 2020
are household equivalent disposable in-come, household consumption, and wealth. Subsequently we use the Income and … Expenditure Survey (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS)) for Germany since 1993 to compare inequality across income … income and income more une-qually than consumption. …
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299075
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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
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in … persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262791
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Returns to Postgraduate Education in Portugal: Holding on to a Higher Ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653404
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Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy: The case of South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Lilenstein, Kezia; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2020
Earnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings percentiles between 2000 and 2015, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized world. We investigate whether the drivers of this example of wage polarization in an emerging economy resemble those explored for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424042
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A decomposition method to evaluate the "paradox of progress" with evidence for Argentina
Alejo, Javier; Gasparini, Leonardo; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel; … - 2022
The 'paradox of progress' is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327929
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Bonus culture: Competitive pay, screening, and multitasking
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2013
, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293214
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Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution and Inequality: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a panel of OECD countries, primarily focusing on the association between these subjective measures and the effective level of inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310755
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The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence
Kuhn, Andreas - 2015
This paper presents a simple conceptual framework specifically tailored to measure individual perceptions of wage inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the paper documents that there is huge variation in inequality perceptions both across and within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420754