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  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    How Many Brackets Should We Ask for to Derive Adequate Metric Information for Income and Wealth?

    This paper investigates how the number of brackets and the choice of upper cutoffs in grouped data affect the metric approximation of income and wealth. The literature currently lacks a definition of what should be considered too few brackets or too-low cut-offs. Using German survey data, we show that more than six (eight) brackets and an upper cut-off at the 95th (97th) percentile are sufficient to ...

    In: Survey Research Methods 18 (2024), 3, S. 251-261 | Maximilian Longmuir, Markus M. Grabka
  • Other refereed articles

    Dealing with Censored Earnings in Register Data

    Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12%of male workers inWest Germany are affected, rising to above 30% for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution ...

    In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (2025), im Ersch. [online first:2025-05-23] | Mattis Beckmannshagen, Johannes König, Isabella Retter, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Yogam Tchokni
  • Research Project

    Gender gaps in the labour market

    This project investigates the underlying causes of gender gaps in the labor market, emphasizing skill mismatches, task divisions, social norms, and implicit gender biases. By employing quasi- and survey-experimental methods with data from Germany and OECD countries, the research examines policies like parental leave and public child care. It explores the effects of these factors on skill...

    Current Project| Gender Economics, Public Economics
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    The Keys to the House - How Wealth Transfers Stratify Homeownership Opportunities

    This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequalities in the transition to homeownership by parental social class. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (N = 13,018), we find that individuals whose parents were manual workers or service workers ...

    In: Social Science Research 129 (2025), 103190, 19 S. | Jascha Dräger, Nora Müller, Klaus Pforr
  • DIW Weekly Report 5/6 / 2025

    Loneliness in Germany: Low-Income Earners at Highest Risk of Loneliness

    Loneliness poses a serious health risk: Along with negatively impacting life quality, it can even shorten the life span. This Weekly Report investigates loneliness in Germany using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2021 on loneliness. The analyses highlight the prevalence of three facets of loneliness (aloneness, isolation, exclusion) as well as regional differences and high-risk groups. The results ...

    2025| Theresa Entringer, Linda Kumrow, Barbara Stacherl
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Lifting Women Up: Gender Quotas and the Advancement of Women on Corporate Boards

    Research Question/Issue The introduction of gender quotas on corporate boards can disrupt the status quo, resulting in externalities that affect women's advancement within the company. This study investigates whether boardroom quotas contribute to promoting women further up the corporate ladder and facilitate access to a broader spectrum of positions. Research Findings/Insights Using legislative changes ...

    In: Corporate Governance (2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-08-24] | Anna Gibert, Alexandra Fedorets
  • Externe Monographien

    The Long Way to Gender Equality: Gender Pay Differences in Germany, 1871-2021: halshs-04424048

    This paper provides the _rst time series of the gender earnings ratio for the full-time employed workforce in Germany since the 1870s and compares Ger- many's path with the Swedish and U.S. cases. The industrialization period yielded slow advances in economic gender relations due to women's delayed inclusion in the industrial workforce. The _rst half of the 20th century exhib- ited a marked leap. In ...

    HAL, 2024, 51 S.
    (HAL Open Science Working Paper ; 2024/02)
    | Theresa Neef
  • Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen

    Consequences of Forced Labor Conscription: Evidence from Dutch Civilians after WWII

    Disruptions of labor market trajectories have lasting effects on later economic success. Displacement due to forced labor conscription is a disruption that remains understudied despite its continued prevalence in contemporary contexts. I investigate the consequences of exposure to forced labor conscription for individuals' long-term labor market outcomes. I exploit the fact that cohorts of Dutch...

    06.11.2024| Carola Stapper, University of Cologne
  • Externe Monographien

    Stock Market Participation, Work from Home, and Inequality

    Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020-in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by repeating a benchmark study and adding WfH to the explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work ...

    SSRN, 2024, 48 S.
    (SSRN Papers)
    | Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, 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
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