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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists
Morduch, Jonathan - 2018
sensitive to warm glow (“impure altruism”) depends on her income level. While the presence of “warm glow” feelings would seem to …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between...
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Minimum wage : many entitled employees in Germany still do not receive it
Fedorets, Alexandra; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 28/29, pp. 223-231
There has been a universal statutory minimum wage in Germany for a good four years, but many employees still do not receive it. This is the finding of new calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which have updated noncompliance with the minimum wage for 2017. Even conservative...
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Inequality in Germany : decrease in gap for gross hourly wages since 2014, but monthly and annual wages remain on plateau
Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 9, pp. 83-92
Despite the booming German labor market, wage inequality is still a relevant issue. In the present study, the authors report on the changes in wages and their distribution between 1992 and 2016. In addition to real contractual gross hourly wages, we closely examined gross monthly and annual...
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Why has inequality in Germany not risen further after 2005?
Rehm, Miriam; Schmid, Kai D.; Wang, Dieter - 2014
In this paper we explore the reasons for the trend reversal in the development of household market income inequality in … Germany in the second half of the 2000s. We analyse to what extent the increasing relevance of capital income as well as the … rising share of atypically employed persons have affected the development of income inequality over the last two decades. We …
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Explaining rising Income inequality in Germany, 1991 - 2010
Schmid, Kai D.; Stein, Ulrike - 2013
In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim … to identify the main drivers of this rise in income inequality since the early 1990s. We provide a broad overview of the … changes in income concentration. To explain the development of the distribution of net equivalized income we analyze changes …
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Why has inequality in Germany not risen further after 2005?
Rehm, Miriam; Schmid, Kai D.; Wang, Dieter - 2014 - This version: September 2014
In this paper we explore the reasons for the trend reversal in the development of household market income inequality in … Germany in the second half of the 2000s. We analyse to what extent the increasing relevance of capital income as well as the … rising share of atypically employed persons have affected the development of income inequality over the last two decades. We …
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A tale of two data sets : comparing German administrative and survey data using wage inequality as an example
Stüber, Heiko; Grabka, Markus M.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18
The IAB’s Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are the two data sets most commonly used to analyze wage inequality in Germany. While the SIAB is based on administrative reports by employers to the social security system, the SOEP is a survey...
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The low-wage sector in Germany is larger than previously assumed
Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 14, pp. 117-124
The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on...
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