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Hälfte aller Erbschaften und Schenkungen geht an die reichsten zehn Prozent aller Begünstigten
Baresel, Kira; Eulitz, Heike; Fachinger, Uwe; Grabka, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 88 (2021) 5, pp. 63-71
Rund zehn Prozent aller Erwachsenen in Deutschland haben in den vergangenen 15 Jahren mindestens eine Erbschaft oder größere Schenkung erhalten. Die durchschnittliche Höhe dieser Erbschaften beläuft sich dabei real auf etwas mehr als 85000 Euro pro Person, jene der Schenkungen auf 89000...
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Hälfte aller Erbschaften und Schenkungen geht an die reichsten zehn Prozent aller Begünstigten
Baresel, Kira; Eulitz, Heike; Fachinger, Uwe; Grabka, … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 88 (2021) 5, pp. 63-71
Rund zehn Prozent aller Erwachsenen in Deutschland haben in den vergangenen 15 Jahren mindestens eine Erbschaft oder größere Schenkung erhalten. Die durchschnittliche Höhe dieser Erbschaften beläuft sich dabei real auf etwas mehr als 85000 Euro pro Person, jene der Schenkungen auf 89000...
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Income and views on minimum living standards
Johnston, David; Menon, Nidhiya - 2021
This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604403
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Income and Views on Minimum Living Standards
Johnston, David W.; Menon, Nidhiya - 2021
This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658235
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Development of top incomes in Germany since 2001
Bartels, Charlotte; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 1/2, pp. 3-8
What share of total income in Germany is owned by the country's top income earners and how has this share developed … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and in administrative data on income taxation. After the statistics have been harmonized … of measured income concentration and in terms of changes over time. However, the two sets of data are very similar for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416983
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Zur Entwicklung von Top-Einkommen in Deutschland seit 2001
Bartels, Charlotte; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 1, pp. 3-9
What share of total income in Germany is owned by the country's top earners and how has this share developed over the …-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and in administrative data on income taxation. After these statistics have been harmonized accordingly … measured income concentration and in terms of changes over time. However, the two sets of data give very similar answers for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417309
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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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The low-wage sector in Germany is larger than previously assumed
Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Weekly Report 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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Der Niedriglohnsektor in Deutschland ist größer als bislang angenommen
Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 14, pp. 249-257
Die Zahl der abhängig Beschäftigten in Deutschland ist seit der Finanzkrise um mehr als vier Millionen gestiegen. Ein Teil dieses Beschäftigungsaufbaus fand im Niedriglohnsektor statt. Analysen auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, die erstmalig ausreichend Details über...
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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 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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