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While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples, men have, on average, 33,000 Euro more net worth than women. We look at five different sets of factors (demographics, ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
13 (2015), 3, 459-486
| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Marcus, Eva M. Sierminska
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Despite the booming German labor market, wage inequality is still a relevant issue. In the present study, the authors report on the changes in wages and their distribution between 1992 and 2016. In addition to real contractual gross hourly wages, we closely examined gross monthly and annual wages. Based on Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, the results show that wage inequality rose significantly between ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
8 (2018), 9, 83-92
| Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on secondary employment, show that there were around nine million low-wage employment contracts in Germany that ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
9 (2019), 14, 117-124
| Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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1997,
| Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
1998,
| Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze
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The German economy is not only affected by unification of Germany but by a significant influx of immigrants from abroad and huge migration from East to West Germany around the date of unification. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) allows one to disentangle those effects by decomposition of the Theil I(0)-Index of inequality. In addition, the paper offers insights into the transition ...
In:
European Economic Review
(1999), 43, 867-878
| Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze, Gert G. Wagner
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We explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms using the German Socio-Economic Panel, which is a representative sample of German residents. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also show changes over time during a 20-year observation period from 1989 to 2008. Most hypotheses are supported by ...
In:
International Journal of Human Resource Management
23 (2012), 17, 3536-3558
| Christian Grund, Johannes Martin
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Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while (public) pension wealth receives little attention. This paper provides for the first time evidence on the levels and composition of and inequalities in households’ positions of augmented wealth – the sum of net worth and pension wealth – in two countries with distinct welfare regimes, the United States and Germany. Micro ...
Dresden:
2016,
(Paper prepared for the 34th IARIW General Conference)
| Markus M. Grabka, Timm Bönke, Edward N. Wolff, Carsten Schröder
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2003,
(DIW Research Note 29)
| Markus M. Grabka, Joachim R. Frick
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In:
Bruce Headey, Elke Holst ,
SOEP Wave Report 1-2008. A Quarter Century of Change: Results from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Berlin: DIW Berlin
35-40
| Markus M. Grabka, Joachim R. Frick