Publikationen der Forschungsgruppe Ungleichheit und Verteilungspolitik

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 16-006 // 2016

    Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes - Evidence from a Field Experiment

    The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the behavioral-economics…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-041 // 2015

    German Public Finances Through the Financial Crisis

    The German experience of the crisis was very different compared to those of most other countries in Europe. Germany was hit by a very strong shock which was relatively concentrated in the exporting,…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 15-084 // 2015

    Inequality of Income Acquisition: The Role of Childhood Circumstances

    Many studies have estimated the effect of circumstances on income acquisition. Perhaps surprisingly, the fraction of inequality attributable to circumstances is usually quite small - in the advanced democracies,…

  4. ZEWnews // 2015

    12 - 2015

    • Strompauschale deckt tatsächliche Kosten von Haushalten in der Grundsicherung kaum
    • Feldstudie in Slowenien: Steuerehrlichkeit von Unternehmen steigt bei persönlichem Kontakt zur Finanzbehörde
    • Digitale Wirtschaft –…
  5. Beiträge in Sammel- und Tagungsbänden // 2015

    Earnings Inequality