The scope of immigrants' transnational ties and the relationship to their social position is subject to a controversial debate that suggests a dualistic picture. On the one hand, globalization theorists argue that an elite of highly educated and economically most successful professionals intensively engages in and benefits from transnationality. On the other hand, most scholars in migration and assimilation ...
Overall monetary redistribution via the tax and transfer system leads to net incomes being much more evenly distributed in Germany than market income. As a result, in 2011, the Gini coefficient decreased from 0.5 for market income to 0.29 for household disposable income. The social security system has a significant share in total income redistribution by the government, making up more than half of ...
Analysen zur Vermögensungleichheit auf Basis von Bevölkerungserhebungen untererfassen tendenziell die Top-Vermögenden. Gerade dieser Personenkreis ist aber von besonderer Bedeutung, weil er einen beträchtlichen Teil des Gesamtvermögens besitzt. Offizielle Registerdaten zur Vermögenssituation liegen für Deutschland nicht vor, die Top-Vermögen lassen sich lediglich an Hand von „Reichen-Listen“ simulieren. ...
Die monetäre Umverteilung durch das Steuer- und Transfersystem führt insgesamt dazu, dass die Nettoeinkommen in Deutschland deutlich gleichmäßiger verteilt sind als die Markteinkommen. So sinkt der Gini-Koeffizient von 0,5 für die Markteinkommen auf 0,29 für die verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen im Jahr 2011. Einen maßgeblichen Anteil an der gesamten staatlichen Umverteilung hat das Sozialversicherungssystem, ...
The topic of rising income inequality does not only gain in relevance since the two prominent reports by the OECD (Growing unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, Paris 2008; Divided we stand—Why inequality keeps rising, Paris 2011) but rather since the financial crisis. So far there is only scarce empirical evidence–besides a rather broad literature dealing with the US–about the ...
This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year. We apply an exact decomposition framework as outlined in Wodon and Yitzhaki (Econ Bull 4:1–8, 2003), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the database. The long time horizon of our ...