Kinder von Eltern mit Wohneigentum haben höhere Chancen, eigene Immobilien zu besitzen, als Kinder von Mieter*innen – Zusammenhang schwächt sich aber in jüngeren Generationen ab: Immer mehr wohnen zur Miete – Abbau von Eigenkapitalhürden könnte sinnvoll sein
Junge Menschen in Deutschland besitzen deutlich seltener Wohnimmobilien als ihre Eltern und wohnen zunehmend zur Miete. Wer jedoch aus einer ...
Homeownership has declined among younger generations in most European countries. A common assumption is that this trend is increasingly stratified by parental homeownership, due to worsening affordability and the growing importance of parental financial support. In this study, we show that this assumption does not hold for the average European. Using data from EU-SILC 2011 and 2019 across 27 European ...
OSF,
2025,
27 S.
(OSF Preprints;Preprints / SocArXiv)
| Selçuk Bedük, Enrico Benassi, Philipp M. Lersch
The role of demographic change for wealth inequality remains underexplored. This study analyzes how shifts in population aging, immigration, partnership status, educational attainment, and female labor force participation influenced wealth inequality in West Germany between 1988 and 2017, focusing on households with children. Our findings reveal that while overall wealth inequality remained stable, ...
New York:
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality,
2025,
54 S.
(Working Paper Series / Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality ; 110)
| Lisa Klein, Philipp M. Lersch, Maximilian Longmuir
What kind of earnings mobility regime defines our society? Are individuals’ earnings trajectories primarily shaped by their social class position, or do trajectories vary within them? These unresolved questions lie at the heart of debates on social class and labor market rewards. To address them, we leverage employment relations theory and data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We use mixed effects ...
OSF,
2025,
69 S.
(OSF Preprints;Preprints / SocArXiv)
| Philipp M. Lersch, Nhat An Trinh, Caspar Kaiser
Job-related relocations are common. Standard economic models typically treat workers as isolated individuals, while most workers live and move as part of a couple. Using a dynamic event study with synthetic comparison groups and German data, we show that women within couples frequently become “tied movers”: following relocation, male partners experience substantial earnings gains (as both hourly wages ...
SSRN,
2025,
30 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Francesca Verga
Wie haben sich die Einkommen unterschiedlicher Bevölkerungsgruppen in Deutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung entwickelt? Unsere Studie untersucht die Entwicklung und Zusammensetzung des Nationaleinkommens entlang der Verteilung im Zeitraum von 1992 bis 2019. Während die untere Hälfte der Einkommensverteilung (unterhalb des Medianeinkommens) bis Mitte der 2000er Jahre reale Einkommensverluste verzeichnete, ...
In:
Wirtschaft im Wandel
31 (2025), 2, S. 30-34
| Stefan Bach, Charlotte Bartels, Theresa Neef