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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women’s lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply. Based on a dynamic microsimulation model, ...
Berlin:
Freie Universität Berlin,
2022,
(School of Business & Economics Discussion Paper 2022/3)
| Rick Glaubitz, Astrid Harnack-Eber, Miriam Wetter
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Um die Potentiale der Mikrosimulation als ein Instrument zur Analyse zukünftiger Versorgungslagen in verschiedenen (sozialpolitischen) Bereichen aufzuzeigen, wurde am Beispiel der Stadt Trier eine Mikrosimulationsstudie durchgeführt, bei der der Einfluss unterschiedlicher Wanderungsszenarien auf die Situation der Grundschülerinnen und Grundschüler im Stadtgebiet untersucht wurde. Die Datenbasis stellt ...
In:
AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
16 (2022), 1, 51-77
| Sebastian Dräger, Johannes Kopp, Ralf Münnich, Simon Schmaus
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To what extent has the closing of the gender gap in hourly wages (‘gender wage gap’; GWG) in Western Germany stalled due to an increasing supply of non-standard working hours? We use descriptive trend analyses and Juhn–Murphy–Pierce decompositions of German Socio-Economic Panel data for the last 30 years (1985–2014) to analyse the extent to which the expansion of part-time and marginal work, as well ...
In:
European Sociological Review
38 (2022), 5, 754-769
| Laila Schmitt, Katrin Auspurg
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Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the literature is to allocate this expenditure ...
Mannheim:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW),
2022,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-004)
| Lukas Riedel, Holger Stichnoth
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The German government recently made a large number of changes to migration legislation, in relation to asylum seekers and refugees who have immigrated since 2015. While the impact of some reforms may be socio-political, most of them also have fiscal implications. This study uses generational accounting to analyse the effects of these legislative changes on the German fiscal system. The results show ...
In:
German Politics
30 (2021), 2, 170-188
| Gerrit Manthei
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An important aspect when analyzing economic inequality between households with children is time. At given monetary incomes, the material well-being of families may be very different depending on how much time parents have at their disposal. In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
19 (2021), 1, 73-95
| Melanie Borah, Andreas Knabe, Kevin Pahlke
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Background: This study seeks to explore potential causal mechanisms involved in the observed associations between several socioeconomic status (SES) indicators, well-being and mortality, by taking a life course perspective focusing on (i) the trajectory of income and domain-specific well-being indicators, (ii) the influence of different SES indicators on well-being and mortality, (iii) the interactions ...
In:
Archives of Public Health
79 (2021), 1, 40
| Diego Montano
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We investigate whether a historical pension concept, the tontine, yields enough innovative potential to extend and improve the prevailing privately funded pension solutions in a modern way. The tontine basically generates an age-increasing cash flow, which can help to match the increasing financing needs at old ages. In contrast to traditional pension products, however, the tontine generates volatile ...
In:
European Actuarial Journal
11 (2021), 1, 49-86
| Jan-Hendrik Weinert, Helmut Gründl
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Using three waves of the Germany's individual-level panel data, this paper analyses whether there are any changes in the trust levels of East German migrants who move to the former Western German regions after the reunification. The results demonstrate that the duration of living in the West is positively associated with East German migrants’ trust and that the labour market is the possible channel ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
155 (2021), 3, 959-981
| Seong Hee Kim
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Recessions negatively impact the health of individuals experiencing hardship. In this paper, we investigate whether there are also long-term effects for those born during difficult economic times through the effects on their health behavior. Based on a theoretical model of parental socialization against smoking and using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, we assess smoking behavior of children ...
In:
Journal of Family and Economic Issues
43 (2022), 4, 799-814
| Kristin J. Kleinjans, Andrew Gill