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Are working hours a new driver of inequality? : on the relation between hours inequality, earnings inequality, and collective bargaining in Germany
Gerold, Stefanie; Stein, Ulrike - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between inequalities in working hours and overall earnings inequality in Germany … Earnings Survey (GSES), a variance decomposition of earnings inequality reveals that hours inequality and the covariance … between wages and hours become more important over time in determining earnings inequality. Based on unconditional quantile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176404
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Family Tax Splitting: A Microsimulation of its Potential Labour Supply and Intra-household Welfare Effects in Germany
Laisney, François; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam - 2003
This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a 'deterministic' collective labour supply model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297284
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408835
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Family tax splitting : a microsimulation of its potential labour supply and intra-household welfare effects in Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; Laisney, François - 2003
This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a "deterministic" collective labour supply model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448558
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Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labor Supply : Evidence from East and West Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017999
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Family Tax Splitting : A Microsimulation of its Potential Labour Supply and Intra-Household Welfare Effects in Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; Laisney, Francois - 2008
This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a 'deterministic' collective labour supply model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076412
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Sources of German income inequality across time and space
Deutschmann, Franziska - In: What drives inequality?, (pp. 39-54). 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241673
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264365
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The unequal consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic : evidence from a large representative German population survey
Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, Andreas - 2021
We employ panel data from three waves of a large representative population survey carried out between June and November 2020 to assess in what regards and to what extent different groups of the German population are affected by the COVID- 19 crisis. Using common factor analysis, we demonstrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582202