High-worth individuals are typically underrepresented or completely missing in population surveys. The lack of a register-based sampling frame on high-worth individuals in many countries challenged previous attempts to sample high-worth individuals in voluntary scientific surveys. In a novel...

We have developed and implemented a new sampling strategy to better represent very wealthy individuals in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our strategy is based on the empirical regularity that the very wealthy have at least part of their assets invested in businesses, and that businesses...

We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012. In particular, we analyze the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status on wealth...

Von 1991 bis 2016 sind die verfügbaren bedarfsgewichteten Einkommen der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland real im Durchschnitt um 18 Prozent gestiegen. Dieser Zuwachs fällt aber je nach Einkommensposition unterschiedlich aus. Im Ergebnis ist die Ungleichheit der verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen...

In den vergangenen zehn Jahren erlebte Deutschland einen Beschäftigungsrekord nach dem anderen. Nach einer langen Phase rückläufiger oder stagnierender Reallöhne stiegen die vereinbarten Bruttostundenlöhne in den Jahren 2013 bis 2018 den Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels zufolge um mehr...

We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use of 1995-2017 microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to show that both individual polarization and relative deprivation have statistically-significant effects on...