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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 individual level 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 ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(SOEPpapers 1050)
| Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus M. Grabka
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The paper describes the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS), an international project launched in 2003 by the Luxembourg Income Study and by institutions from Canada, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The aim of the project is to assemble and to harmonise existing micro-data on household wealth, in order to provide a sounder basis for comparative ...
In:
Journal of Economic Inequality
4 (2006), 3, 375-383
| Eva M. Sierminska, Andrea Brandolini, Timothy M. Smeeding
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This paper provides a first glance at the role of income and wealth in comparing economic security of older persons in the United States in cross-national perspective. We compare our elders to those in six other rich OECD countries (Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). These countries have diverse social policy systems, with respect to both social insurance and public assistance; ...
Boston (MA):
Center for Retirement Research at Boston College,
2007,
(CRR WP 2007-3)
| Eva M. Sierminska, Andrea Brandolini, Timothy M. Smeeding
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Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households’ participation decisions in assets are more responsive to income than older households. Family structure plays a significant role in explaining cross-country differences ...
In:
Journal of Income Distribution
26 (2018), 1,
| Eva M. Sierminska, Karina Doorley
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Economic research on the determinants of gender differences in economic outcomes particularly in income and consumption is well established. Extending these investigations to other outcomes such as wealth up till now has been limited due to lack of individual-level data. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we find a significant ‘raw’ gender wealth gap of 50,000€ for married partners. Decomposition ...
In:
Oxford Economic Papers
62 (2010), 4, 669-690
| Eva M. Sierminska, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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In:
Janet C. Gornick, Markus Jäntti ,
Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
Stanford: Stanford University Press
285-311
| Eva M. Sierminska, Timothy M. Smeeding, Serge Allegrezza
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Programmierer sind nerdig, Grundschullehrer alle total sozial und Verkäufer extrovertiert. An den Klischees ist mehr dran, als man denkt.
In:
Frankfurter Allgemeine online vom 30. Mai 2017
(2017),
| Anne-Christin Sievers
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In:
FR online vom 27. Juni 2008
(2008),
| Markus Sievers
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In:
Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) vom 12. Febr. 2015
(2015), 36, 16
| Markus Sievers
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In:
vhw Forum Wohneigentum
(2003), 1, 2-7
| Markus Sigismund