Wie in anderen OECD-Staaten hat auch in Deutschland die Frauen- und Müttererwerbsbeteiligung stark zugenommen, allerdings bestehen noch immer Lohnunterschiede zwischen Männern und Frauen, welche für Frauen mit Kindern am größten ausfallen. Diese werden oft mit Humankapitalentwertung, der Signalwirkung von (langen) Erwerbsunterbrechungen und der möglichen Diskriminierung von Frauen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
67 (2015), 4. S. 737-762
| Paul Schmelzer, Karin Kurz, Kerstin Schulze
Jan Goebel and Carsten Schröder reply to the proposal of Andreas Peichl et al. to combine the Taxpayer Panel with the German Socio-economic Panel. They concede that both measures help to understand the development of income distribution. But problems may occur because the different concepts are only partially congruent. Peichl et al. also think that complementary analyses of survey data and administrative ...
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Wirtschaftsdienst
95 (2015), 12, S. 861-867
| Jan Goebel, Carsten Schröder
It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the opportunity to learn a musical instrument. Moreover, policymakers present these programs as innovative policies ...
Das durchschnittliche reale verfügbare Haushaltseinkommen ist nach Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) von 2000 bis 2012 um fünf Prozent gestiegen. Von dieser Entwicklung profitieren aber nur die oberen Einkommensgruppen. Während die realen Einkommen der obersten zehn Prozent um mehr als 15 Prozent stiegen, stagnierten sie in der Mitte der Einkommensverteilung und waren in ...
2015| Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
According to calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, average disposable household income rose by five percent in real terms between 2000 and 2012. Only the highest earners have benefited from this development. While real income in the top ten percent rose by more than 15 percent, the earnings of the middle income groups stagnated, and even fell in the lower income groups. As a ...
2015| Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the last two years of the observation period ...