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Reassessing intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States : the impact of differences in lifecycle earnings patterns
Vogel, Thorsten (contributor) - 2006
Using longitudinal data on fathers and their children, this study compares the extent of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticities for a possible lifecycle bias. In contrast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375779
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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008
Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010
equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664565
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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008 : trends in permanent and transitory income components and the role of the welfare state
Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010
equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826575
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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/10003875240
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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German Male Income Volatility 1984 to 2008 : Trends in Permanent and Transitory Income Components and the Role of the Welfare State
Bartels, Charlotte - 2014
equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old … German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in … smoothening earnings shocks we compute different income concepts reaching from gross earnings to net equivalent household income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069087
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us - for the first time - to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168056
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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation … II, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern stands in sharp contrast to developments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909983
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades …. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us – for the first time – to offer a complete picture of the … German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193660
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Income risk inequality : evidence from Spanish administrative records
Arellano, Manuel; Bonhomme, Stéphane; De Vera, Micole; … - 2021
In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … in Spain between 2005 and 2018. We construct individual measures of income risk as functions of past employment history …, income, and demographics. Focusing on males, we document that income risk is highly unequal in Spain: more than half of the …
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