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  • SOEPpapers 899 / 2017

    A Head-to-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

    We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth – defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between the two countries: While average ...

    2017| Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff
  • SOEPpapers 853 / 2016

    The Joint Distribution of Net Worth and Pension Wealth in Germany

    Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of future pension entitlements from public and company pension schemes – receives little attention. This is astonishing, given that pension plans play an important role for material security and well‐being for an overwhelming part of the population and, thus, should be accounted for ...

    2016| Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff, Lennard Zyska
  • SOEPpapers 325 / 2010

    German Male Income Volatility 1984 to 2008: Trends in Permanent and Transitory Income Components and the Role of the Welfare State

    Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance to income dynamics. To uncover the role of the welfare state in smoothening earnings shocks we compute different ...

    2010| Charlotte Bartels, Timm Bönke
  • Externe Monographien

    Wer gewinnt? Wer verliert? Die Entwicklung und Prognose von Lebenserwerbseinkommen in Deutschland

    Gütersloh: Bertelsmann-Stiftung, 2020, 49 S. | Timm Bönke, Rick Glaubitz, Konstantin Göbler, Astrid Harnack, Astrid Pape, Miriam Wetter
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    A Head-to-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

    We examine the composition of augmented household wealth, the sum of net worth and pension wealth, in the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth of about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. When pension wealth is included in household wealth, the Gini coefficient falls from 0.889 to 0.700 in the United States and from 0.755 to 0.508 in ...

    In: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 122 (2020), 3,S. 1140-1180 | Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    The Joint Distribution of Net Worth and Pension Wealth in Germany

    The research on wealth inequality has generally focused on real and financial assets, while giving little attention to pension wealth: the present value of future pension entitlements from public and company pension schemes. This is surprising given the important role pension plans play in guaranteeing material security and well‐being for a majority of the population, and suggests that they should ...

    In: The Review of Income and Wealth 65 (2019),4, S. 834-871 | Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff, Lennard Zyska
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    Parental Background Matters: Intergenerational Mobility and Assimilation of Italian Immigrants in Germany

    We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against registry data provided by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial disparities between educational achievements of immigrants and natives, we find that the children of Italian immigrants ...

    In: German Economic Review 19 (2018), 1, S. 1-31 | Timm Bönke, Guido Neidhöfer
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    Effectiveness of Early Retirement Disincentives: Individual Welfare, Distributional and Fiscal Implications

    In aging societies, information on how to reform pension systems is essential to policy makers. This study scrutinizes effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ administrative pension data and a detailed model of the German tax and social security system to estimate a structural dynamic retirement model. We find that ...

    In: Labour Economics 51 (2018), S. 25-37 | Timm Bönke, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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    Fiscal Equalization and Tax Enforcement

    In many countries organized as federations, fiscal equalization schemes have been implemented to mitigate vertical or horizontal imbalances. Such schemes usually imply that the member states of the federation can only partly internalize (marginal) tax revenue before redistribution. Aside from the internalized marginal revenue, referred to as the marginal tax-back rate, the remainder is redistributed. ...

    In: German Economic Review 18 (2017), 3, S. 377-409 | Timm Bönke, Beate Jochimsen, Carsten Schröder
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    Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany

    We employ German social security records to investigate intragenerational lifetime earnings inequality and mobility of yearly earnings for 35 cohorts, starting with the birth year 1935. Our main result is a striking secular rise of intragenerational inequality in lifetime earnings: West German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 85% more lifetime inequality than their fathers. ...

    In: Journal of Labor Economics 33 (2015) No. 1, S. 171-208 | Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo, Holger Lüthen
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