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Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the literature is to allocate this expenditure ...
Mannheim:
Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW),
2022,
(ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-004)
| Lukas Riedel, Holger Stichnoth
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The German government recently made a large number of changes to migration legislation, in relation to asylum seekers and refugees who have immigrated since 2015. While the impact of some reforms may be socio-political, most of them also have fiscal implications. This study uses generational accounting to analyse the effects of these legislative changes on the German fiscal system. The results show ...
In:
German Politics
30 (2021), 2, 170-188
| Gerrit Manthei
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The present study aims at comparing physical and mental health outcomes of different migrant groups and the native German population, testing for the presence of a healthy migrant effect (HME) and its potential differences between groups. The HME is marked by an observed health advantage for migrants compared to the host population, which declines with increasing years since migration. Macroeconomic, ...
In:
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
48 (2022), 11, 2620-2641
| Manuel Holz
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This study examines the role of occupational classes in the Gender Wealth Gap (GWG). Despite rising interest in gender differences in wealth, the central role of occupations in restricting and enabling its accumulation has been neglected thus far. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study employs quantile regressions and decomposition techniques. It finds explanatory power of occupational ...
In:
Feminist Economics
27 (2021), 4, 114-147
| Nora Waitkus, Lara Minkus
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This article explores the composition of the personal social networks and their interrelation with the family context of recently arrived refugees in Germany. Using the Refugee Sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (2017) and performing logistic regression analyses, the findings suggest that refugees living without their partner, children, or extended family in Germany are more likely to have at ...
In:
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
22 (2024), 1, 134-148
| Lenore Sauer, Elisabeth K. Kraus
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Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship predicts that individuals with a more balanced skill set are more likely to enter entrepreneurship. This relationship is often explained by either the investment or the endowment hypothesis. Both hypotheses describe skill balancing by those more interested in entrepreneurship per se. Previous studies which have attempted to determine the relative ...
In:
Applied Economics
54 (2022), 10, 1145-1161
| Lorna Syme, Elisabeth Mueller
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An emerging literature is experimenting with using survey response behavior as a proxy for hard-to-measure abilities. We contribute to this literature by formalizing this idea and evaluating its benefits and risks. Using a standard and nationally representative survey from Australia, we demonstrate that the survey item-response rate (SIRR), a straightforward summary measure of response behavior, varies ...
In:
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
41 (2023), 1, 197-212
| Sonja C. de New, Stefanie Schurer
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This dissertation provides three examples of how using naturally occurring datasets, data collected independent of the consideration of researchers, can answer important research questions. These types of data are called “administrative records” or “organic data” and include sources as diverse as W2 tax filings, stock prices, and Google searches (see Groves, 2011). In the first example, The Dog that ...
2013,
| David Hedengren
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What survey respondents choose not to answer (item nonresponse) provides a useful task based measure of cognitive ability (e.g., IQ) and non-cognitive ability (e.g., Conscientiousness). Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), we find consistent correlation between item nonresponse and traditional measures of IQ and Conscientiousness. ...
2012,
(SSRN Working Paper)
| David Hedengren, Thomas Stratmann
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This paper deals with the question how workers’ labour market and non-monetary outcomes are impacted by a negative sector-specific labour demand shock. This issue is analysed in a setting of rapid structural change that happened in Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The sector-specific labour demand shock can be assumed to be exogenous to other worker characteristics as it was ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
241 (2021), 2, 239-285
| Eva Weigt