Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Wie viel Mitte braucht die Gesellschaft?

Zur Bedeutung des Alterssicherungsvermögens für eine erweiterte Vermögensverteilungsrechung

Anwartschaften an Alterssicherungssysteme - gesetzliche, tarifliche und private - stellen erhebliche Vermögensbestände dar. Analysen zur personellen Vermögensverteilung haben dies bislang aus Datengründen allerdings nicht vollständig berücksichtigt. Nach neuen Berechnungen auf Basis der 2007 erhobenen Vermögensdaten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) beliefen sich die gesamten Renten- und...

Entwicklung der Einkommens- und Vermögensungleichheit

Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this paper are: First, to elaborate a...

Distributional Effects of Non-cash Incomes in Seven European Countries

Most empirical distributional studies in developed countries rely on distributions of disposable income. From a theoretical point of view this practice is contentious since a household?s command over resources is determined not only by its spending power over commodities it can buy in the market but also on resources available to the household members through non-market mechanisms such as the in...

Die Finanzierungsoptionen in der GKV: Gestaltungsoptionen, Finanzparameter, Erfahrungen aus anderen Ländern

Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially biases results. The approach...

Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially biases results. The approach...

Fahrstuhl außer Betrieb? Die Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland

Gestiegene Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung des Alterssicherungsvermögens

Wealth Inequality and the Relevance of Public Pension Entitlements

Bestandsaufnahme: Privates Vermögen, seine Verteilung und Auswirkungen der Ungleichverteilung

Wie groß ist die Armut in Deutschland? Eine Auseinandersetzung mit den vorliegenden empirischen Messverfahren

Die Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland: Wohlstand für alle: Zusammenhalt durch (gerechtere) Teilhabe

Zur ökonomischen Situation von älteren Menschen in Deutschland

Pauschalprämienmodelle zur Finanzierung des Gesundheitswesens: Strukturparameter, Gestaltungsoptionen, Simulationen

Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially biases results. The approach...

Bedrohte Mittelschicht? Zur Entwicklung von Einkommen und Vermögen in Deutschland

Co-payments for Ambulatory Care in Germany: A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health care reform can be regarded as a natural experiment. We used a difference-in-difference approach to...

GKV-Reformvorschläge und ihre Auswirkungen auf das Familieneinkommen