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Wealth Inequality on the Rise in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 10, pp. 62-73

Individual net wealth in Germany totaled an average of around 88,000 Euros at the beginning of 2007 which was about 10 percent higher than in 2002. Decisive for this development was an increase in monetary wealth as well as wealth from private insurance. In connection with the overall quite...

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Old-Age Pension Entitlements Mitigate Inequality: But Concentration of Wealth Remains High

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 8, pp. 55-64

Entitlements from old-age pension schemes - statutory, company, and private - represent a considerable source of wealth. For data-related reasons, analyses of the personal wealth distribution have so far failed to take this into account, however. According to recent calculations based on the...

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Income Polarisation in Germany Is Rising

Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin; Häußermann, Hartmut - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 26, pp. 199-206

Income disparities between poorer and richer households in Germany have been widening since reunification. Although this income polarisation is reduced during economically favourable periods by strong growth in employment, once the good times are over, it rises all the faster. The longer-term...

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Property rights and intellectual property protection, GDP growth and individual well-being in Latin America

Ahmed Lahsen, Amina; Piper, Alan T. - In: Latin American Economic Review 28 (2019) 1, pp. 1-21

A central argument for increased protections of property rights (PR) is the role they play in encouraging economic transactions, investment and economic growth. Likewise, the utilitarian justification of intellectual property laws is that such rights promote creative inventions and innovation,...

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Hidden violence: How COVID-19 school closures reduced the reporting of child maltreatment

Cabrera-Hernández, Francisco; Padilla-Romo, María - In: Latin American Economic Review 29 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17

This study examines how school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic affected the reporting of child maltreatment in Mexico City. We use a rich panel dataset on incident-level crime reports and victim characteristics and exploit the differential effects between school-age children and older...

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Social effect of Covid-19: Estimates and alternatives for Latin America and the Caribbean

Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Flores, Iván; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 29 (2020) 1, pp. 1-44

This document offers estimates of the possible changes in the social structure of the countries of Latin America derived from the consequent economic contraction from the Covid-19 pandemic and explores the possible costs and benefits of different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The...

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Five Years after the Reform of the Social and Unemployment Benefits in Germany

Brenke, Karl - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 12, pp. 86-96

only a weak sign for success: Firstly, unemployment on the whole decreased more than in previous economic recoveries, and … a success if unemployment rates drastically went down also for social benefits recipients. There were no significant …

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Uncovering the wage differential between formal and informal jobs: Analysis from the Colombian Caribbean Region

Cantillo, Tatiana; Cantillo, Victor; Cantillo-García, … - In: Latin American Economic Review 31 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25

The paper aims to assess the wage differential that would induce workers to switch between informal and formal sectors, analysing the informal labour market in the Colombian Caribbean region. Relying on the theory of equalising differences, we uncover which workers perceive the highest utility...

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A Summer Break for the Unemployment Rate: Google-Assisted Forecasting Signals Easing

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 25, pp. 176-181

, many observers are anticipating a dramatic rise in unemployment in the fall, with the total number of unemployed rapidly … unemployment rate will remain relatively stable in August and through the end of September, when elections for the German Bundestag … will be held. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is actually falling. Given this fact, the danger that the total …

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Automation and the jobs of young workers

Falcone, Guillermo; Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 31 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31

New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the...

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