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Externe Monographien
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings between 1960 and 2009. Over this period, the German labor market undergoes a heavy transformation and experiences ...
Essen [u.a.]:
RWI [u.a.],
2015,
43 S.
(Ruhr Economic Papers ; 582)
| Timm Bönke, Matthias Giesecke, Holger Lüthen
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Externe Monographien
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles for prime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings between 1960 and 2009. Over this period, the German labor market undergoes a heavy transformation and experiences ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2015,
41 S.
(Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2015,26)
| Timm Bönke, Matthias Giesecke, Holger Lüthen
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Externe Monographien
In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same time these instruments usually create negative employment incentives for secondary earners. This in turn reduces the potential of in-work support to address the joint objectives of higher employment and lower ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2015,
12 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 9531)
| Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck, Katharina Wrohlich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We employ German social security records to investigate intragenerational lifetime earnings inequality and mobility of yearly earnings for 35 cohorts, starting with the birth year 1935. Our main result is a striking secular rise of intragenerational inequality in lifetime earnings: West German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 85% more lifetime inequality than their fathers. ...
In:
Journal of Labor Economics
33 (2015) No. 1, S. 171-208
| Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo, Holger Lüthen
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Other refereed essays
This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on the savings rate is not homogeneous. On average, the effect attributed to real estate dominates the other components of wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly ...
In:
International Economics and Economic Policy
12 (2015), 2, S. 163-173
| Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger, Richard Ochmann
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from 12 countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four- to five-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative income has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of poor material conditions, such as ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
116 (2014), S. 202-210
| Maja Adena, Michal Myck
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Externe Monographien
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2013,
20 S.
(Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2013,21)
| Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
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SOEPpapers 617 / 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household ...
2013| Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
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Externe Monographien
The dissertation fits into this empirical literature on the economic effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. The research questions are related to the arguments and issues that have been brought forward in the policy debate and that have been addressed in the economic literature on minimum wages: How would a federal minimum wage affect the distribution of gross wages? Which individuals would ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin,
2013,
V, 279 S.
| Kai-Uwe Müller
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SOEPpapers 583 / 2013
This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance schemes. I rely on a dynamic programming ...
2013| Daniel Kemptner