The project analyses the effects of the statutory minimum wage on poverty in Germany. We use the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to examine the development of income poverty. Using a microsimulation model, the project studies the effect of minimum wages on social benefits.
Im Fokus der Studie steht die Analyse der Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf Armut im Zeitraum bis 2019. Dabei wird auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Entwicklung von Einkommensarmut und Armutsgefährdung untersucht. Im Rahmen der Analyse werden mithilfe eines Mikrosimulationsmodells zudem die Auswirkungen verschiedener Höhen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns...
We quantify the contribution of rental income to pre- and post-government equivalent household income inequality and of housing wealth to net wealth inequality between 2002 and 2017 in Germany by means of a factor decomposition. Further, we differentiate by region types (urban vs. rural, large vs. small municipalities) and federal states. We find that housing wealth, housing ownership and rental income ...
Berlin:
Forum for a New Economy,
2020,
25 S.
(Forum for a New Economy Working Papers ; 7)
| Charlotte Bartels, Carsten Schroeder
Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus SOEP-RegioHub an der Universität Bielefeld (SOEP@UBi)
Die Lebensbedingungen in Deutschland sind heute durch zunehmende und sich rasch verändernde regionale Disparitäten in strukturellen, demografischen und ökonomischen Bereichen gekennzeichnet. Wie diese regionalen Disparitäten zusammenhängen und welche Folgen sie für den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt haben, ist in...
Leibniz ScienceCampus SOEP-RegioHub at Bielefeld University (SOEP@UBi)
Living conditions in Germany today show evidence of increasing and rapidly changing regional disparities in structural, demographic and economic domains. These disparities often take the form of an adverse access to health care facilities, childcare provision, education and other public services as well as regional labour...
Previous research suggests that minimum wages induce heterogeneous treatment effects on wages across different groups of employees. This research usually defines groups \textit{ex ante}. We analyze to what extent effect heterogeneities can be discerned in a data-driven manner by adapting the generalized random forest implementation of Athey et al (2019) in a difference-in-differences setting. Such ...
SSRN,
2020,
37 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Patrick Burauel, Carsten Schroeder
This paper presents the first comprehensive study of the long-run evolution of wealth inequality in Germany. We combine tax data, surveys, national accounts and rich lists to study the distribution of wealth in Germany from 1895 to 2018. We show that the concentration of wealth in the hands of the top 1% has fallen by half, from close to 50% in 1895 to less than 25% today. The interwar period as well ...
Bonn:
EconTribute,
2020,
68 S.
(EconTribute Policy Brief ; 001)
| Thilo N. H. Albers, Charlotte Bartels, Moritz Schularick
Concerns about inequality and questions of social justice and cohesion have re-entered the public arena and animate debate, provoked by the recent rapid increases in cross-sectional inequality. While much has been learnt from the literature on inequality, Deaton (2015) has outlined in his Nobel lecture several imperatives that are key to understanding inequalities and formulating welfare-enhancing...
Concerns about inequality and questions of social justice and cohesion have re-entered the public arena and animate debate, provoked by the recent rapid increases in cross-sectional inequality. While much has been learnt from the literature on inequality, Deaton (2015) has outlined in his Nobel lecture several imperatives that are key to understanding inequalities and formulating welfare-enhancing...
In Deutschland hat sich die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz von LGBTQI*-Menschen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten deutlich verbessert und die rechtliche Gleichstellung am Arbeitsmarkt wurde durch das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz gestärkt. Dennoch berichten knapp 30 Prozent derjenigen, die sich der Gruppe der LGBTQI*-Menschen zuordnen, von Benachteiligungen im Arbeitsleben. Dies ist das Ergebnis einer ...
2020| Lisa de Vries, Mirjam Fischer, David Kasprowski, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, David Richter, Zaza Zindel