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  • DIW Weekly Report 49 / 2024

    Refugees Send Remittances Abroad Less Often than Other Migrants

    Remittances sent by refugees to their home countries has been a hotly debated policy topic in Germany over the past years and has led to the introduction of a payment card for asylum applicants. This Weekly Report investigates how the share of people living in Germany who send remittances abroad has changed over time according to their migration background (with or without a refugee background) and ...

    2024| Adriana Cardozo Silva, Sabine Zinn
  • Externe Monographien

    De-Routinization of Jobs and the Distribution Of Earnings: A Cross-Country Comparison

    The Routine-Biased Technological Change hypothesis (RBTC) by Autor et al. (2023) suggests that automation processes have substituted workers operating middle-skilled routine tasks. As a result, the relative demand for complementary workers operating non-routine tasks has increased. These changes in the labor force composition imply job polarization, characterized by a growing proportion of both high- ...

    SSRN, 2024, 78 S.
    (SSRN Papers)
    | Maximilian Longmuir, Carsten Schroeder, Matteo Targa
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Wealth Creators or Inheritors? Unpacking the Gender Wealth Gap from Bottom To Top and Young to Old

    There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40, then widens, and declines for those past retirement ...

    In: Economics Letters 246 (2025),111997, 5 S. | Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder
  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Understanding Trends in the German Income Distribution: 2001-2019 (with Robin Jessen)

    In this paper we document trends in inequality in earnings and disposable household income for men and women in Germany from 2001 to 2019. We find that males at the lower half of the earnings distribution have lower earnings in 2019 than in 2001. In contrast, female earnings have increased throughout the distribution. Households and the welfare state has cushioned much---but not all---of the...

    16.10.2024| Eliana Coschignano, RWI
  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Unveiling financial dependency: The motherhood penalty on individual poverty risk within couples in Germany, 1990–2019

    Typically, poverty risk is assessed at the household level, neglecting within-couple income inequality and the role of individual characteristics in vulnerability to income poverty. This paper uses SOEP data and a quasi-experimental event study design to investigate poverty dynamics within couples over an 8-year period around the first birth. It follows partnered women (N=1,174) and men (N=1,137)...

    13.11.2024| Christina Siegert, University of Vienna
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Did Religious Well-Being Benefits Converge or Diverge During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany?

    A large body of literature highlights the benefits of being religious in terms of subjective well-being. We examine changes to these so-called religious well-being benefits during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and address the role of (formal and informal) social integration when explaining these changes. We empirically test two contrasting scenarios: The first scenario predicts ...

    In: Journal of Happiness Studies 25 (2024), 103, 35 S. | Jan‑Philip Steinmann, Hannes Kröger, Jörg Hartmann, Theresa M. Entringer
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    First Time around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees

    We study the effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees’ multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were centrally assigned to live in specific counties. To measure sentiments of native residents towards immigrants, we use geo-coded Twitter data, which provides our “negative sentiment ...

    In: Journal of Urban Economics 137 (2023), 103588, 15 S. | Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Testing Marx: Capital Accumulation, Income Inequality, and Socialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany

    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 (2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2023-03-15] | Charlotte Bartels, Felix Kersting, Nikolaus Wolf
  • Externe Monographien

    Wealth Creators or Inheritors? Unpacking the Gender Wealth Gap From Bottom to Top and Young to Old

    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
  • Diskussionspapiere 2076 / 2024

    The Women in Economics Index - Monitoring Women Economists' Representation in Leadership Positions

    We contribute to the research on gender representation in economics by documenting the share of women among economists in a variety of leadership positions in the academic, but also in the private and public sectors, both globally and by region. For the years 2019 to 2023, we find women economists’ representation overall to be low in all sectors and no clear-cut trends over time. In academia, we find ...

    2024| Jana Schuetz, Virginia Sondergeld, Insa Weilage
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