Christian Schluter
Biographic Data
| ID | 831110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Schluter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Schluter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLUTER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dealing with Censored Earnings in Register Data
Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12 % of male workers in West Germany are affected, rising to above 30 % for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution constitutes a major problem for researcher…
Routes to the Top
Who makes it to the top? We use the leading socio‐economic survey in Germany, supplemented by extensive data on the rich, to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a few traits matter: Entrepreneurship and self‐employment in conjunction with a sizable inheritance of company assets is the most important covariate comb…
Spatial earnings inequality
Earnings inequality in Germany has increased dramatically. Measuring inequality locally at the level of cities annually since 1985, we find that behind this development is the rapidly worsening inequality in the largest cities, driven by increasing earnings polarisation. In the cross-section, local earnings inequality rises substantially in city size, and this city-size inequality penalty has increased steadily since 1985, reaching an elasticity …
On Zipf’s law and the bias of Zipf regressions
City size distributions are not strictly Pareto, but upper tails are rather Pareto like (i.e. tails are regularly varying). We examine the properties of the tail exponent estimator obtained from ordinary least squares (OLS) rank size regressions (Zipf regressions for short), the most popular empirical strategy among urban economists. The estimator is then biased towards Zipf’s law in the leading class of distributions. The Pareto quantile–quantil…
Size distributions reconsidered
We consider tests of the hypothesis that the tail of size distributions decays faster than any power function. These are based on a single parameter that emerges from the Fisher–Tippett limit theorem, and discriminate between leading laws considered in the literature without requiring fully parametric models/specifications. We study the proposed tests taking into account the higher order regular variation of the size distribution that can lead to…
The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return Migration of Immigrants
Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the effects of individual labour market spells on immigration durations using the “timing-of-events” method. The model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across migration, unemployment and employment processes. We find that unemployment spells increase return probabilities for all immigrant groups, while re-employment spel…
The composition of wage differentials between migrants and natives
With a Lot of Help from my Friends: Social Networks and Immigrants in the UK
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the role of social networks in the labour market, comparing immigrant and native men in the UK. We first explore the determinants of using social networks as a channel for looking for jobs. Our focus does not only lie on the main search method of job search, rather we also use information on whether social networks are used as a method of search among many alternative ones. We subsequently investigate…
Are parents altruistic? Evidence from Mexico
Der Sinn der Gewalt. Aporien der Unmittelbarkeit bei Benjamin, Foucault und Lévinas
The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared
We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Western Germany using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-97. In Britain poverty persistence was greater, and poverty exit rates in particular were lower, than in Western Germany. In both countries, poverty was particularly persistent among children in lone parent households and households with a non…
Child poverty in Germany: Trends and persistence
Poverty in Germany is no longer seen by many to affect only a small group of persons on the margin of society. Widespread public concern is reflected in front-page newspaper reports about worsening social indicators and the high incidence of social assistance receipt. These are complemented by descriptions of German society which use concepts such as ‘new poverty’ and a ‘two thirds, one thirds society’ of haves and have-nots – themes which have r…
The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries
A child poverty rate of ten percent could mean that every tenth child is always poor, or that all children are in poverty for one month in every ten. Knowing where reality lies between these extremes is vital to understanding the problem facing many countries of poverty among the young. This unique study goes beyond the standard analysis of child poverty based on poverty rates at one point in time and documents how much movement into and out of p…
On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems
Journal Article On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems Get access Christian Schluter Christian Schluter London School of Economics and STICERD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 441, 1 March 1997, Pages 489–502, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0013-0133.1997.173.x Published: 24 November 2003
With a Lot of Help from my Friends: Social Networks and Immigrants in the UK
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the role of social networks in the labour market, comparing immigrant and native men in the UK. We first explore the determinants of using social networks as a channel for looking for jobs. Our focus does not only lie on the main search method of job search, rather we also use information on whether social networks are used as a method of search among many alternative ones. We subsequently investigate…
The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared
We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Western Germany using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-97. In Britain poverty persistence was greater, and poverty exit rates in particular were lower, than in Western Germany. In both countries, poverty was particularly persistent among children in lone parent households and households with a non…
Are parents altruistic? Evidence from Mexico
On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems
Journal Article On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems Get access Christian Schluter Christian Schluter London School of Economics and STICERD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 441, 1 March 1997, Pages 489–502, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0013-0133.1997.173.x Published: 24 November 2003
On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems
Journal Article On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems Get access Christian Schluter Christian Schluter London School of Economics and STICERD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 441, 1 March 1997, Pages 489–502, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0013-0133.1997.173.x Published: 24 November 2003
Child poverty in Germany: Trends and persistence
Poverty in Germany is no longer seen by many to affect only a small group of persons on the margin of society. Widespread public concern is reflected in front-page newspaper reports about worsening social indicators and the high incidence of social assistance receipt. These are complemented by descriptions of German society which use concepts such as ‘new poverty’ and a ‘two thirds, one thirds society’ of haves and have-nots – themes which have r…
The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialised Countries
A child poverty rate of ten percent could mean that every tenth child is always poor, or that all children are in poverty for one month in every ten. Knowing where reality lies between these extremes is vital to understanding the problem facing many countries of poverty among the young. This unique study goes beyond the standard analysis of child poverty based on poverty rates at one point in time and documents how much movement into and out of p…
Der Sinn der Gewalt. Aporien der Unmittelbarkeit bei Benjamin, Foucault und Lévinas
The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared
We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Western Germany using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-97. In Britain poverty persistence was greater, and poverty exit rates in particular were lower, than in Western Germany. In both countries, poverty was particularly persistent among children in lone parent households and households with a non…
Are parents altruistic? Evidence from Mexico
The composition of wage differentials between migrants and natives
With a Lot of Help from my Friends: Social Networks and Immigrants in the UK
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the role of social networks in the labour market, comparing immigrant and native men in the UK. We first explore the determinants of using social networks as a channel for looking for jobs. Our focus does not only lie on the main search method of job search, rather we also use information on whether social networks are used as a method of search among many alternative ones. We subsequently investigate…
The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return Migration of Immigrants
Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the effects of individual labour market spells on immigration durations using the “timing-of-events” method. The model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across migration, unemployment and employment processes. We find that unemployment spells increase return probabilities for all immigrant groups, while re-employment spel…
Size distributions reconsidered
We consider tests of the hypothesis that the tail of size distributions decays faster than any power function. These are based on a single parameter that emerges from the Fisher–Tippett limit theorem, and discriminate between leading laws considered in the literature without requiring fully parametric models/specifications. We study the proposed tests taking into account the higher order regular variation of the size distribution that can lead to…
On Zipf’s law and the bias of Zipf regressions
City size distributions are not strictly Pareto, but upper tails are rather Pareto like (i.e. tails are regularly varying). We examine the properties of the tail exponent estimator obtained from ordinary least squares (OLS) rank size regressions (Zipf regressions for short), the most popular empirical strategy among urban economists. The estimator is then biased towards Zipf’s law in the leading class of distributions. The Pareto quantile–quantil…
Spatial earnings inequality
Earnings inequality in Germany has increased dramatically. Measuring inequality locally at the level of cities annually since 1985, we find that behind this development is the rapidly worsening inequality in the largest cities, driven by increasing earnings polarisation. In the cross-section, local earnings inequality rises substantially in city size, and this city-size inequality penalty has increased steadily since 1985, reaching an elasticity …
Routes to the Top
Who makes it to the top? We use the leading socio‐economic survey in Germany, supplemented by extensive data on the rich, to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a few traits matter: Entrepreneurship and self‐employment in conjunction with a sizable inheritance of company assets is the most important covariate comb…
Dealing with Censored Earnings in Register Data
Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12 % of male workers in West Germany are affected, rising to above 30 % for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution constitutes a major problem for researcher…
Economics (10 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Poverty (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Earnings (3 works)