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among foreign‐born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low‐income … the generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low‐income workers …
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This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia …. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent income rank is associated with on average 0.2 percentile increase in … child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …
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This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings …
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-economic analyses of SOEP data show that income has a clear influence on donation behavior. Although the richest ten percent of … households contribute 37 percent of total donations, they donate less than the poorer income groups relative to their disposable … income. Despite this, the tax benefit from charitable giving is greater for richer households than for poorer because it is …
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One of the most persistent socioeconomic phenomena in the process of family formation is the relatively low rate of marriage by black men and women. The enduring conventional wisdom has been that low black marriage rates reflect a relative shortage of marriageable black men. Yet numerous studies...
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immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period …. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting … as well. Disposable income inequality and the low-income rate are stagnating, but the trends differ depending on …
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This paper examines the association between income, income inequalities and health inequalities in Europe. The … contribution of this paper is to study different hypotheses linking self-perceived health status and income, allowing for the … identification of different mechanisms in income-related health inequalities. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and …
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Earnings differences are a recurring topic of public discussion in Germany. Data from the long-term Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study as well as a separate survey of German employees (LINOS) show that earnings inequalities are generally perceived as fair while a substantial share of the...
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Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has …
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Recent data from EU-SILC and Destatis seemed to indicate a dramatic increase in German inequality and poverty in the pandemic year 2020. But Destatis had changed its data collection method. Based on several studies, it is likely that the actual rise has been much weaker while the previous data...
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