Im Lichte der Bundestagswahl widmet sich der IW-Verteilungsreport 2021 der Frage, ob die besonders in Wahlkampfzeiten oft bemühte Behauptung einer sich weiter öffnenden Einkommensschere zwischen Arm und Reich der Faktenlage standhält. Dazu wird neben der Entwicklung der Primärverteilung...

Deindustrialization and Tertiarization and the Polarization of Household Incomes: The Example of German Agglomerations The deindustrialization of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings scattered throughout the...

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...