The objective of the study is to investigate the changing role of explanatory factors of wealth and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individuallevel microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The authors apply distributional decomposition methods and focus on the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status in this ...
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Zum Ausgang der griechischen Parlamentswahlen äußert sich Alexander Kritikos, Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Entrepreneurship am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) und Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Potsdam, wie folgt: