The aim of this paper is to estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyze their impact on the income distribution and on economic inequality in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and taking into consideration regional and education-specific variation, the overall result is an expected leveling effect ...
In:
Journal of Income Distribution
19 (2010), 3-4, 17-40
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg