Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The Income and Wealth Packages of Older Women in Cross-National Perspective

Objectives. We assess the income and wealth packages of older women’s (age 65+ years) households and the extent to which low income is paired with low wealth, across a group of six high-income countries. Methods. We use data on income and net worth from the Luxembourg Wealth Study, a new cross-national microdatabase. We define income poverty as having household income less than 50% of the national ...

Deindustrialisation and the polarisation of household incomes: The example of urban agglomerations in Germany

The tertiarisation, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialisation of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings, but also in the income and social structures of cities. Industrialisation, collective wage setting, and the welfare state led to a stark reduction in income differences over the course of the 20th century. ...

Die erwartete Arbeitsmarktdynamik

Hohe pauschale Lohnsteigerungen in der DDR gefährden die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Stärkere Differenzierung des Lohngefüges erforderlich

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen regionaler Einkommensanalysen mit dem Sozio-ökonomischen Panel - deskriptive und regressionsanalytische Ergebnisse

Erwerbstätigkeit und Einkommen von Frauen in der DDR

Produktivität und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der DDR-Wirtschaft

Changes in Earnings Inequality - An International Perpective

Cross-National Comparisons of Earnings and Income Inequality

Empirical Evidence on Income Inequality in Industrialized Countries

This chapter reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of annual disposable income inequality in over 20 wealthy nations. We begin by reviewing a number of conceptual and measurement issues which must be addressed by any cross-national comparison of survey-based household income data. With these caveats in mind, we present data on both the level of inequality during the early to mid-1990s, ...