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Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung: Zwischen Wahrnehmung und Wirklichkeit

Die Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung hatte sich in Deutschland vor dem Beginn der Finanzkrise zunehmend ungleich entwickelt, seitdem aber ist die Ungleichheit zurückgegangen. Ob Ökonomen beurteilen können und sollen, was eine „richtige und gerechte“ Einkommensverteilung ist, bleibt fraglich. Zusammenhänge können allerdings diskutiert werden: Ist Ungleichheit der Preis des Wachstums? Wie ist die ...

Wohneigentumsquote – Geringe Dynamik in der Wohneigentumsbildung

Die Voraussetzungen für die Bildung von Wohneigentum sind derzeit besonders gut, vor allem aufgrund der historisch geringen Hypothekenzinsen. Dennoch hat sich die Wohneigentumsquote zwischen 2011 und 2014 kaum erhöht, was vor allem an der geringen Eigentumsbildung bei Haushalten mit geringen Einkommen liegt.

Social Transfers to Immigrants in Germany and Denmark (Chapter 8)

The Importance of Cognitive and Social Skills for the Duration of Unemployment

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in adolescence and early adulthood. I estimate a flexible proportional hazard rate model for the probability of making a transition from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort data from the National Child Development ...

Multidimensionale Deprivation: Armutsgefährdung und medizinisch-gesundheitliche Versorgung

Reciprocal Influences between Personality Traits and Career Transitions (Dissertation)

The Interplay between Locus of Control and Reemployment

Given the negative effects of unemployment on society and individuals alike, research needs to identify factors associated with reemployment. Under the guiding framework of the dynamic developmental model (DDM) of personality and work, the present study therefore investigates the role of locus of control as both a contributor to and an outcome of reemployment. Building on a sample of 538 participants ...

The Role of Risk Propensity in Predicting Self-Employment

This study aims to untangle the role of risk propensity as a predictor of self-employment entry and self-employment survival. More specifically, it examines whether the potentially positive effect of risk propensity on the decision to become self-employed turns curvilinear when it comes to the survival of the business. Building on a longitudinal sample of 4,973 individuals from the German Socio-Economic ...

Family Policies, Women's Earnings, and Between-Household Inequality: Trends in 18 OECD countries from 1981 to 2005

This paper examines to what extent family policies have affected earnings inequality within and between coupled households. Previous studies had found cross-country variation in the degree to which women’s earnings attenuate earnings inequality between households. In this paper we explain this variation with reconciliation policies and financial support policies. We used person-level data from the ...

Women’s Earnings: Trends in earnings inequality within and between coupled households in 18 OECD countries, 1981-2005

In this paper we show that women’s earnings attenuate inequality between coupled households, even though the earnings of spouses are positively correlated. We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS, 2013) on 572,222 coupled households, covering the period from 1981 to 2005 in 18 OECD countries. Three trends are described. Firstly, over time women’s earnings increasingly contributed to total ...