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Workshop
The 2-day workshop, supported by the German Research Foundation, will bring together researchers to discuss and exchange ideas on critical issues surrounding wealth and income inequalities. Featured presentations will highlight work on a wide range of topics, including savings and wealth accumulation, measuring income inequality and poverty, long-run dynamics of income and wealth distributions,...
26.10.2023| Martin Blomhoff Holm (University of Oslo), Bertrand Garbinti (CREST-ENSAE)
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Externe Monographien
Diese Dissertation setzt sich aus vier empirischen Kapiteln über Ungleichheit zusammen, wobei die Kapitel 1 und 2 regionale Ungleichheiten behandeln, während die Kapitel 3 und 4 Ungleichheit auf individueller Ebene untersuchen.Das erste Kapitel leistet einen methodischen Beitrag zur Literatur über regionale Ungleichheit, indem es den Befehl fayherriot für die Statistiksoftware Stata bereitstellt. Der ...
Berlin:
Freie Universität Berlin,
2022,
XV, 212 S.
| Christoph Halbmeier
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DIW Weekly Report 43/44 / 2023
The unequal distribution of labor income in Germany is a hotly debated topic among policymakers and the general public alike. However, the relevant data for calculating the distribution is usually available with a delay of sometimes over two years. Accordingly, previous studies have only been about the past, not the current, distribution. Generally, the current development of the income distribution ...
2023| Timm Bönke, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Laura Pagenhardt
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DIW Weekly Report 17/18 / 2023
Ein Unfall, eine chronische Erkrankung oder auch eine angeborene Behinderung sind häufige Ursachen für den Verlust der Erwerbsfähigkeit. Der Wegfall des Erwerbseinkommens wird zwar durch die Erwerbsminderungsrente in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung versichert. Diese Rente ist aber so niedrig, dass Erwerbsgeminderte einem sehr hohen Armutsrisiko ausgesetzt sind und überdurchschnittlich häufig Leistungen ...
2023| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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Research Project
In this project, a top-corrected wealth distribution is estimated on the basis of the inheritance tax statistics and the SOEP. We analyze the concentration of wealth, the portfolios of the wealthy, the importance of inherited wealth, the gender inheritance gap and the gender wealth gap as well as reactions to inheritance taxation.
Current Project| Public Economics, German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines how households adjust their savings and consumption expenditure in response to an anticipated increase in the early retirement age (ERA). We examine the 1999 pension reform in Germany, which increased the ERA for women born after 1951 by at least three years. First, we present suggestive evidence that women update their retirement planning in response to the reform. Using the German ...
In:
Journal of Public Economics
221 (2023), 104845, 17 S.
| Stefan Etgeton, Björn Fischer, Han Ye
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Diskussionspapiere 2044 / 2023
How does a monetary union alter the impact of business cycle shocks at the household level? We develop a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian model of two countries (HANK2) and show in closed form that a monetary union shifts the adjustment to a shock horizontally—across countries—within the brackets of the union-wide wealth distribution rather than vertically—that is, across the brackets of the union-wide ...
2023| Christian Bayer, Alexander Kriwoluzky, Gernot J. Müller, Fabian Seyrich
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Other refereed essays
In recent years, researchers have grappled with the phenomenon that public demand for redistribution has not systematically increased in response to rising inequality. Meritocratic beliefs have been suggested as an explanation for this observation, because they can help legitimize inequalities. Past research has identified local-level inequality, segregation, or diversity as important factors for how ...
In:
Social Sciences
12 (2023), 7, 376, 29 S.
| Nicole Oetke, Maria Norkus, Jan Goebel
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led to a rise in the capital share and income inequality, as predicted by orthodox Marxists. But against their ...
In:
The Review of Economics and Statistics
(2024), im Ersch. [online first: 2023-03-15]
| Charlotte Bartels, Felix Kersting, Nikolaus Wolf
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Externe Monographien
This paper investigates the gender wealth gap using wealth recorded in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ranking women and men by their individual wealth reveals that the average gender wealth gap is driven by the large gap in the top tail. We find that the gender wealth gap widens during working age and closes during retirement. This is associated with men receiving higher inheritances and inter-vivos ...
Rochester :
SSRN,
2023,
29 S.
| Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schroeder