SOEP Research: Inequality and Mobility

The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the ousehold context. Based on unique individual-level wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper challenges ...

Fairness of Public Pensions and Old-Age Poverty

In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims of low-income workers might not even exceed the minimum income guarantee which the government provides the ...

Distributional Effects of Imputed Rents in Seven European Countries: AIM-AP National Report for Germany ; Part of the Research Project "Accurate Income Measurement for the Assessment of Public Policies" (AIM-AP) Funded by European Commission

The Working Poor: Employment, Poverty and Globalization

Germany's Middle Class Has Shrunk: Incomes Increasingly Polarised from 2000 to 2005

Persistent Poverty Is Increasing in Germany

Increased Unemployment Has Led to Growing Poverty: Earnings Inequality Has Increased but Most Low Earners Are not "Working Poor"

Methodological Issues in the Measurement of Income and Poverty

How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed over the 1990s Business Cycle: A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan

Using kernel density estimation we find that over their 1990s business cycles the entire distribution of after-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions that spread mostly to the right, much like the United ...