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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study investigates how atypical employment (i.e., part-time, temporary work, mini-jobs) affects workers' ability to accumulate financial assets and exposes them to asset poverty in Germany. Asset poverty occurs when household financial resources (e.g., bank deposits and stock equity) are insufficient to live at the income poverty line for three months. Previously, studies on labour market processes ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
85 (2023), 100803, 11 S.
| Claudia Colombarolli, Philipp M. Lersch
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Positive assortative mating may be a driver of wealth inequalities, but this relationship has not yet been examined. We investigate the association between assortative mating and wealth inequality within and between households drawing on data from the United States Survey of Income and Program Participation and measuring current, individual-level wealth for newly formed couples (N = 3936 couples). ...
In:
Social Forces
102 (2023), 2, S. 454–474
| Philipp M. Lersch, Reinhard Schunck
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study the effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were centrally assigned to live in specific counties. To measure sentiments of native residents towards immigrants, we use geo-coded Twitter data, which provides our “negative sentiment ...
In:
Journal of Urban Economics
137 (2023), 103588, 15 S.
| Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In this study, we argue that parents’ class position may influence the type and timing of their offspring's investments in financial assets. These investments may facilitate net worth accumulation beyond direct transfers, contributing to the intergenerational reproduction of social positions. We test these expectations using retrospective life history and prospective panel data for 14 countries from ...
In:
Acta Sociologica
66 (2023), 2, S. 210-230
| Philipp M. Lersch, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Externe Monographien
Mit dem vorliegenden Bericht eröffnen wir unsere Reihe der Zusammenhaltsberichte desFGZ. Die Zusammenhaltsberichte sollen auf der Grundlage der im FGZ erhobenen Dateneine interessierte Öffentlichkeit über zentrale Befunde und Analysen zum gesellschaftlichenZusammenhalt in Deutschland informieren. Mit dem Fokus auf Datenerhebungen ergänzendie am Forschungsdatenzentrum des FGZ (FDZ-FGZ) koordinierten ...
Bremen:
SOCIUM, Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt,
2023,
131 S.
| Nils Teichler, Jean-Yves Gerlitz, Carina Cornesse, Clara Dilger, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Holger Lengfeld, Eric Nissen, Jost Reinecke, Stephan Skolarski, Richard Traunmüller, Lena Verneuer-Emre
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Externe Working Papers
This paper investigates the gender wealth gap using wealth recorded in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ranking women and men by their individual wealth reveals that the average gender wealth gap is driven by the large gap in the top tail. We find that the gender wealth gap widens during working age and closes during retirement. This is associated with men receiving higher inheritances and inter-vivos ...
Rochester :
SSRN,
2023,
29 S.
| Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schroeder
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Externe Working Papers
By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20 percent of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical lifecycle model of wealth accumulation, this paper examines the extent to which regional differences in destruction can explain differences in wealth today” – at the beginning of the 21st century. As our empirical basis, we link a unique historical dataset on the ...
Rochester :
SSRN,
2023,
80 S.
| Christoph Halbmeier, Carsten Schroeder
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Externe Working Papers
While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is scarce to non-existent. This is problematic because both theoretical and empirical evidence show that the position in the wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge. We measure ex-ante IOp in net wealth for Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2023,
54 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 16488)
| Daniel Graeber, Viola Hilbert, Johannes König
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Using data from the European Social Survey, we examine income fairness evaluations of 17,605 respondents from 28 countries. Respondents evaluated the fairness of their own incomes as well as the fairness of the incomes of the top and bottom income deciles in their countries. Depicted on a single graph, these income fairness evaluations take on a Z-shaped form, which we call the "inequity Z". The inequity ...
In:
Socius
(2023), 9, S. 1-3
| Fabian Kalleitner, Sandra Bohmann
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This study examines how inheritance and gift tax systems in combination with gendered parental transfer behavior strengthen gender wealth inequalities. Gender differences in transfers can be reproduced if men benefit differently than women from tax exemptions. This might happen when men and women receive different types of assets where only some are tax exempted. To investigate gendered parental...
31.05.2023| Daria Tisch, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies