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  • Diskussionspapiere 925 / 2009

    20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

    We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a fixed effects vector decomposition method, ...

    2009| Tilman Brück, Heiko Peters
  • SOEPpapers 180 / 2009

    Financing Social Security: Simulating Different Welfare State Systems for Germany

    In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives. The introduction of the Social-democratic ...

    2009| Caroline Dieckhoener, Andreas Peichl
  • SOEPpapers 181 / 2009

    Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries

    Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other factors. This new method is superior ...

    2009| Ingvild Almas, Magne Mogstady
  • SOEPpapers 190 / 2009

    Delay in Marriage and Income Inequality in Japan: The Impact of the Increased Number of Unmarried Adults Living with Their Parents on the Household Economy

    The continuous decline in the fertility rate has been witnessed since 1980 in Japan. Japan's total fertility rate in 2005 is 1.32, which is far below the replacement rate, 2.08. One of the main reasons for declining the fertility rate is the delay in marriage or even shy away from marriage among young adults. In this paper, looking at youth interms of their relation to the household, we will examine ...

    2009| Sawako Shirahase
  • SOEPpapers 214 / 2009

    Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence

    Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask subjects to report (a) how their income compares ...

    2009| Guy Mayraz, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
  • SOEPpapers 216 / 2009

    The Justice of Earnings in Dual-Earner Households

    The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of "atypical" employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasingpercentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against this backdrop, the present paper investigates the impact of household contexts in which the traditional male ...

    2009| Stefan Liebig, Carsten Sauer, Jürgen Schupp
  • SOEPpapers 41 / 2007

    Does Money Buy Higher Schooling? Evidence from Secondary School Track Choice in Germany

    The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in life. School track choice heavily influences choices and opportunities later in life. It has often been observed that secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and information on a natural experiment in order ...

    2007| Marcus Tamm
  • SOEPpapers 43 / 2007

    Which Progress for Poverty Studies Can We Expect from New Large Data Sources?

    2007| Jürgen Friedrichs
  • Externe Monographien

    As SIMPL as That: Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland

    Bonn: IZA, 2007, 51 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 2988)
    | Olivier Bargain, Leszek Morawski, Michal Myck, Mieczyslaw Socha
  • Diskussionspapiere 1056 / 2010

    Confronting the Representative Consumer with Household-Size Heterogeneity

    Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer construct with microfoundations. One complex aspect of micro-level heterogeneity is household size, as individuals ...

    2010| Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt
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