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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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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Well-being inequality is a subject that has being extensively covered and which is widely discussed also in the political and civil environment. However, the majority of the studies done in this field are still limited to the analysis of monetary variables, like income, wealth or expenditure, completely forsaking non-monetary elements such as education, health or employment on the basis that...
29.05.2019| Tommaso Bechini (Sapienza Università di Roma)
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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
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper examines the causal impact of later retirement on outpatient care consumption among the French elderly. Outpatient care are defined as all the care provided out of the hospital setting. This question is of interest since spill effects may arise if later retirement increases health care expenditures. To deal with reverse causality issue, I use, as an instrumental variable, the 1993...
30.10.2019| Elsa Perdrix, Paris School of Economics
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
(together with Thilo Albers (HU Berlin) und Moritz Schularick (Uni Bonn))
This paper provides the first long-run wealth inequality series for Germany. We combine wealth tax data, survey data, national accounts' household balance sheets, and lists of large wealth holders to study the accumulation and distribution of wealth in Germany from 1895 to 2017. We find that wealth concentration in...
24.07.2019| Charlotte Bartels
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DIW Applied Micro Seminar
Abstract: We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register-linked Swedish survey, we find that informing individuals about the large aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for inheritance taxation. The...
25.10.2019| Daniel Waldenström, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
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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 ...
In:
Theory and Decision
87 (2019), 3, S. 283–297
| Ulrich Schmidt, Levent Neyse, Milda Aleknonyte
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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. ...
In:
Demographic Research
40 (2019), Art. 39, S. 1111–1152
| Sergi Vidal, Philipp M.Lersch
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Non-refereed Articles
Besides income, wealth plays an important role for the economic situation as well as the satisfaction of persons. So far the relationship between income as a flow measure and subjective well-being (SWB) is widely described. However, research in the connection between wealth and subjective well-being is scarce. This is predominately due to a lack of adequate microdata. In this paper we make use of longitudinal ...
In:
Social Indicators Research Series
(2019), im Ersch. [online first: 2019-06-25]
im Ersch. [online first: 2019-06-25]
| Christoph Halbmeier, Markus M. Grabka