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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence on cohort trends of the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and life expectancy at age 65 and show that the longevity gap is increasing across cohorts. For ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
17 (2020), 100199, 24 S.
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper evaluates the short-run impact of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the hourly wages and monthly earnings of workers targeted by the reform. We first provide detailed descriptive evidence of changes to the wage structure in particular at the bottom of the distribution and distinguish between trends for regularly employed and marginally employed workers. In the causal ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
240 (2020), 2-3, S. 201-231
| Patrick Burauel, Marco Caliendo, Markus M. Grabka, Cosima Obst, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Cortnie Shupe
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International SOEP User Conference
Dear SOEP 2020 submitters and interested scientists,
Due to ongoing health concerns and logistical problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the local organizing committee of the SOEP 2020 Conference is sorry to inform you that we have had to cancel the conference in 2020 and are postponing the next SOEP Conference to early July 2022.
We hope you are staying healthy and safe in these...
09.07.2020
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We examine the composition of augmented household wealth, the sum of net worth and pension wealth, in the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth of about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. When pension wealth is included in household wealth, the Gini coefficient falls from 0.889 to 0.700 in the United States and from 0.755 to 0.508 in ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
122 (2020), 3,S. 1140-1180
| Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Background: Residential relocations of couple households are associated with increases in objective gender inequality within families in paid and unpaid work. Little is known about how couples’ relocations affect subjective outcomes such as attitudes.Objective: We examine whether gender role attitudes change when families move residentially in Britain, empirically addressing potential explanations. ...
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Demographic Research
40 (2019), Art. 39, S. 1111–1152
| Sergi Vidal, Philipp M.Lersch
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In contrast to the assumptions of standard economic theory, recent experimental evi-dence shows that the income of peers has a systematic impact on observed degrees of risk aversion. This paper reports the findings of two experiments examining the impact of income inequality on risk preferences and whether the knowledge of inequality mediates the decisions. In Experiment 1, participants who were recruited ...
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Theory and Decision
87 (2019), 3, S. 283–297
| Ulrich Schmidt, Levent Neyse, Milda Aleknonyte
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We regret to inform you that SOEP 2020 cannot take place this year.
The call for papers on our SOEP2020 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online.
Conference date: July 9-10, 2020, in Berlin!
Please submit electronic versions of abstracts (up to 300 words) no later than JAN 31, 2020 to: soep2020@diw.de
Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract.The ...
12.12.2019
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Occupational positions can explain an important part of the differences in pay between men and women. However, a considerable Gender Pay Gap exists even within the same occupational position. In this paper, we aim at understanding the reason for the gap within occupational positions and, therefore, investigate whether promotions lead to the same effect on earnings growth for men and women....
27.11.2019| Aline Zucco
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DIW Weekly Report 44/45 / 2019
The present study compares the perceptions of fairness of national earned incomes between the populations of Germany and the rest of Europe based on recent data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The vast majority of European respondents consider very low gross earned incomes to be unjustly low. By contrast, very high incomes are less frequently considered too high in Germany than they are in the ...
2019| Jule Adriaans, Philipp Eisnecker, Stefan Liebig
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Economists spend much of their lives talking about and correcting for sample selection. Recent evidence from behavioral economics documents that participants in lab experiments don't account for selection effects when they interpret conditional distributions. This "selection neglect" can distort expectations in settings where individuals learn from comparisons with other people who differ in...
13.11.2019| Annekatrin Schrenker