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This data documentation describes selected ways of how to analyze net wages in the weakly anonymous Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies 1975-2010 (SIAB) or other administrative data sets provided by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Among other things, these data sets provide information about dependently employed persons in Germany and their gross wages over time. Due to the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2017,
(DIW Berlin Data Documentation 89)
| Henrike Junge
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This paper provides an overview of the German home visiting program Pro Kind. We conducted a RCT to assess the program effects. A total of 755 women with multiple risk factors were recruited; of those, 394 were assigned to the treatment group. We assessed program influences on family environment, maternal and child health, and child development until the child’s third birthday in regular interviews, ...
In:
Mental Health & Prevention
3 (2015), 3, 89-97
| Tanja Jungmann, Tilman Brand, Verena Dähne, Peggy Herrmann, Hüsamettin Günay, Malte Sandner, Susan Sierau
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2005,
| Olaf Jürgens
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2005,
| Olaf Jürgens
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Based on theoretical models of budget-balanced social insurance and individual choice, we argue that in addition to the well-known empathy mechanism whereby ethnic heterogeneity undermines sentiments of solidarity among a citizenry to reduce welfare generosity, population heterogeneity affects the generosity of a polity’s social insurance programs through another distinct mechanism, political conflict. ...
Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2014,
(LIS Working Paper Series No. 625)
| Markus Jäntti, Gerald Jaynes, John E. Roemer
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We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 607)
| Markus Jäntti, Stephen P. Jenkins
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The Nordic model relies on high tax rates to finance an extensive welfare state. If labour supply elasticities are large, the burden of financing the model can be large even if, arguably, the practice of providing subsidised goods that support labour supply is likely to mitigate these effects. We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, including the four major Nordic countries, ...
In:
Journal of Public Economics
127 (2015), July 2015, 87-99
| Markus Jäntti, Jukka Pirttilä, Håkan Selin
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This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence parameter between the two variables and study whether accounting for wealth and income jointly reveals a different pattern of social inequality than the traditional ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2015,
(IZA DP No. 9190)
| Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska, Philippe Van Kerm
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Paris:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
2008,
(OECD Social Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 65)
| Markus Jantti, Eva M. Sierminska, Timothy M. Smeeding
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In:
Janet C. Gornick, Markus Jäntti ,
Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
Stanford: Stanford University Press
312-333
| Markus Jäntti, Eva M. Sierminska, Philippe Van Kerm