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Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Muliere, Pietro - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

distributions by absolute target shortfall indices are explored. Well-known inequality indices like the absolute Gini index and the …

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Measuring the Selection of Pay Referents: A Methodological Analysis of the Questions on Pay Referents in the 2008 and 2009 SOEP Pretest Modules

Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet progress on the questions of who people use as social referents and whether differential selection patterns exist can only be made based on valid and reliable measures of pay...

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

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

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...

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Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany

Myck, Michal; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

There is by now a lot of evidence showing a sharp increase in cross-sectional wage and earnings inequality during the … to 2006, we do not find unambiguous empirical support for the frequent claims that recent increases in inequality have … been driven mainly by permanent disparities. From 1994 on, permanent inequality increases continuously, peaks in 2001 but …

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Who Are the Chronic Poor?: Evidence on the Extent and the Composition of Chronic Poverty in Germany

Biewen, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional poverty in a given year is chronic. The characteristics that are most closely associated with long-term poverty are...

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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off ?

Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to compare effective average tax rates for different household...

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The Distribution and Heterogeneity of Technical Efficiency within Industries: An Empirical Assessment

Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...

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Take It or Leave It: (Non-) Take-up Behavior of Social Assistance in Germany

Kayser, Hilke Almut; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

Basierend auf den Mikro-Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels untersuchen wir Determinanten der Nichtinanspruchnahme von Sozialhilfe in Deutschland. Die Schätzung einer Nichtinanspruchnahmequote ("Dunkelziffer") von über 60 Prozent zeigt deutliche Unterschiede für verschiedene...

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The Personal Distribution of Income and Imputed Rent: A Cross-National Comparison for the UK, West Germany and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study...

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The Effect of Family Income during Childhood on Later-life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...

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