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Distribution of household incomes in Germany: An updated analysis using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in the years 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2005 and 2009

Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2011: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP

Private Net Worth in Eastern and Western Germany Only Converging Slowly

Very nearly 25 years after the fall of the Wall, households in eastern Germany have average assets of 67,400 euros which is less than half of their counterparts in western Germany with average assets of 153,200 euros. In both parts of the country, real estate ownership is quantitatively the most important asset type. Although the share of owner-occupiers has increased significantly in both regions ...

Income and wealth inequality after the financial crisis: the case of Germany

The topic of rising income inequality does not only gain in relevance since the two prominent reports by the OECD (Growing unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, Paris 2008; Divided we stand—Why inequality keeps rising, Paris 2011) but rather since the financial crisis. So far there is only scarce empirical evidence–besides a rather broad literature dealing with the US–about the ...

Kapitaldeckung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung: Zur Berechnung der finanziellen Auswirkungen eines Umstieg vom Umlage- auf das Kapitaldeckungssystem

Entries, Exits, and the Dynamics of Employment: Lower Saxony, 1978-1990

Rising In-work Poverty in Times of Activation: Changes in the Distributive Performance of Institutions over Three Decades, Germany 1984–2013

In-work poverty contradicts the belief that a job should provide a decent standard of living. Nevertheless, the share of working poor in most European countries has risen. Studies show that the development of in-work poverty is attributable to changes in the distributive performance of the labour market, households and the welfare state, as measured by their ability to prevent people from falling below ...

Social Insurance and Occupational Mobility

This paper studies how insurance from progressive taxation improves the matching of workers to occupations. We propose an equilibrium dynamic assignment model to illustrate how social insurance encourages mobility. Workers experiment to find their best occupational fit in a process filled with uncertainty. Risk aversion and limited earnings insurance induce workers to remain in unfitting occupations. ...

Monitoring Economic Performance, Quality of Life and Sustainability. Joint Report as Requested by the Franco-German Ministerial Council

Overview of International Household Panel Studies