In this project, a top-corrected wealth distribution is estimated on the basis of the inheritance tax statistics and the SOEP. We analyze the concentration of wealth, the portfolios of the wealthy, the importance of inherited wealth, the gender inheritance gap and the gender wealth gap as well as reactions to inheritance taxation.
In diesem Projekt wird auf Basis der Erbschaftsteuerstatistik und des SOEP eine spitzenkorrigierte Vermögensverteilung geschätzt. Analysiert werden die Vermögenskonzentration, die Portfolios der Hochvermögenden, die Bedeutung von ererbten Vermögen, der Gender Inheritance Gap und der Gender Wealth Gap sowie Ausweichreaktionen bei der Erbschaftsbesteuerung.
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a difference-in-differences estimator based on administrative data from the German pension insurance and find that, on average, ...
Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a few traits matter: Entrepreneurship and self-employment in conjunction with a sizable inheritance of company ...
Die Erholung der deutschen Wirtschaft wird zur Geduldsprobe. Im dritten Quartal dieses Jahres lief es schlechter als erwartet – vor allem, weil die privaten Haushalte trotz steigender Löhne und sinkender Inflation ihr Geld nach wie vor nur zurückhaltend ausgeben. Der private Konsum und auch die Wirtschaftsleistung insgesamt gingen sogar zurück. Und nun folgt die nächste Bewährungsprobe: Das Bundesverfassungsgericht ...
The recovery of the German economy is becoming an exercise in patience. In the third quarter of 2023 the economy fared worse than expected, in particular because private households continued to spend their money conservatively despite climbing wages and falling inflation. Both private consumption and overall economic output even declined slightly. Now the next challenge has arrived: In November 2023, ...
This dissertation consists of four empirical chapters which contribute to the fields of labor economics and inequality research. The first chapter examine whether gender differences exist in fairness evaluation of own earnings. Previous studies found that women tend to evaluate their own pay more favorably than men. Contented women are speculated to not seek higher wages, thus the ‘paradox of the contented ...