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Externe Monographien
This dissertation focuses on three dimensions of inequality: income, (just) taxation, and well-being. All chapters focus on a similar time horizon (2000 to 2015) and essentially on the same geographical area, Germany. The chapters are organized in four parts, each examining a specific research question and based on evidence from microdata - the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The analysis of chapter ...
Berlin:
FU Berlin,
2019,
IX, 151 S.
| Maria Metzing
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines possible differences between lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGBs) compared to heterosexuals with respect to their integration into the residential neighbourhood. By means of a multi-level analysis, we examine if there is a gap in social integration between LGBs compared to heterosexuals, and if so, to what extent municipality characteristics can account for variations in this ...
In:
Social Science Research
84 (2019) 102320, 13 S.
| Mirjam Fischer, Matthijs Kalmijn, Stephanie Steinmetz
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DIW Weekly Report 28/29 / 2019
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 calculations indicate that around 1.3 million people who are entitled to the minimum wage receive a lower wage ...
2019| Alexandra Fedorets, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
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Report
SAVE THE DATE: July 9-10, 2020, in Berlin!
The call for papers on our SOEP2020 - 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online.
Researchers of all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract.The theme of the conference and keynote speeches will be "Inequalities and Their Subjective Perceptions in a Changing World".
More information on our conference website.
15.07.2019
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DIW Discussion Papers 1810 / 2019
We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on the supervisory boards of a particular type of firms. We exploit the fact that Germany has a two-tier corporate system consisting of the affected supervisory boards and unaffected management boards within the same firm. We find a positive effect on the female share on supervisory ...
2019| Alexandra Fedorets, Anna Gibert, Norma Burow
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Externe Working Papers
The objective of the study is to investigate the changing role of explanatory factors of wealth and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individuallevel microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The authors apply distributional decomposition methods and focus on the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status in this ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2019,
43 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 12404)
| Eva Sierminska, Daniela Piazzalunga, Markus M. Grabka
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Non-refereed Articles
Besides income, wealth plays an important role for the economic situation as well as the satisfaction of persons. So far the relationship between income as a flow measure and subjective well-being (SWB) is widely described. However, research in the connection between wealth and subjective well-being is scarce. This is predominately due to a lack of adequate microdata. In this paper we make use of longitudinal ...
In:
Social Indicators Research Series
(2019), im Ersch. [online first: 2019-06-25]
im Ersch. [online first: 2019-06-25]
| Christoph Halbmeier, Markus M. Grabka
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after WWI and during the hyperinflation years of the 1920s, then increased rapidly throughout the Nazi period beginning in the 1930s. Following the end of WWII, German top income shares returned to 1920s levels. The German pattern ...
In:
The Journal of Economic History
79 (2019), 3, S. 669-707
| Charlotte Bartels
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DIW Applied Micro Seminar
Abstract: We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register-linked Swedish survey, we find that informing individuals about the large aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link to inequality of opportunity significantly increases the support for inheritance taxation. The...
25.10.2019| Daniel Waldenström, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
(together with Thilo Albers (HU Berlin) und Moritz Schularick (Uni Bonn))
This paper provides the first long-run wealth inequality series for Germany. We combine wealth tax data, survey data, national accounts' household balance sheets, and lists of large wealth holders to study the accumulation and distribution of wealth in Germany from 1895 to 2017. We find that wealth concentration in...
24.07.2019| Charlotte Bartels