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  • SOEPpapers 74 / 2007

    Inequalities within Couples: Market Incomes and the Role of Taxes and Benefits in Europe

    In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under tax-benefit systems that are progressive, there is some redistribution from men to women overall. However, an aggregate ...

    2007| Francesco Figari, Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Holly Sutherland
  • Other refereed essays

    Distributive Effekte der deutschen Abgeltungssteuer auf Kapitaleinkünfte

    In: Schmollers Jahrbuch 127 (2007), 2, S. 297-314 | Michael Broer
  • SOEPpapers 13 / 2007

    Educational Expansion and Its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers

    This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues of endogeneity of schooling and its heterogeneous returns we apply two estimation methods: Wooldridge's ...

    2007| Michael Gebel, Friedhelm Pfeiffer
  • SOEPpapers 14 / 2007

    Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

    Based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2004, this paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany. Between 1984 and 1994 wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent and the wage distribution in West Germany was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2004 average wages rose by about 8 percent in West Germany and 28 percent ...

    2007| Johannes Gernandt, Friedhelm Pfeiffer
  • SOEPpapers 5 / 2007

    Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

    This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of income in a dynamic framework. This finding holds after controlling for other influential factors in a multivariate ...

    2007| Conchita D'Ambrosio, Joachim R. Frick
  • SOEPpapers 24 / 2007

    Keeping up with the Schmidts: An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context

    We test empirically whether people's life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory suggests that individuals are happier the better their relative income position in the neighbourhood is. To test ...

    2007| Gundi Knies, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper
  • Weekly Report 4 / 2007

    Increasing Persistent Poverty in Germany

    Income poverty in Germany has reached its highest level for twenty years. This statistic is often seen as proof of the existence and growth of a 'decoupled underclass'. In other scenarios large sections of society appear to be facing collapse into poverty. If the duration of individual phases of poverty and the different dimensions of life in which need can occur are included in the analysis persistent ...

    2007| Olaf Groh-Samberg
  • Diskussionspapiere 693 / 2007

    The Intergeneratinal Transmission of Poverty in Industrialized Countries

    This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty in industrialized countries. In order to make our survey manageable, we restrict attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty (or 'income') during childhood and later-life outcomes; we do not explicitly consider the impact of other family background variables such as parental education. The ...

    2007| Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler
  • Diskussionspapiere 694 / 2007

    Using Household Panel Data to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty

    This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty. We consider issues both of data and of the statistical methods that may be applied to those data. Although the data focus is on panel surveys from developed countries, we also briefly consider data availability in developing countries. We set out a list of survey data requirements ...

    2007| Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler
  • SOEPpapers 23 / 2007

    Risk Aversion and Reservation Wages

    This study examines the relationship between individual risk aversion and reservation wages using a novel set of direct measures of individual risk attitudes from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that risk aversion has a significantly negative impact on the level of reservation wages. Moreover, we show that the elasticity of the reservation wage with respect to unemployment benefits ...

    2007| Markus Pannenberg
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