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Computing Capital Stocks in the German Social Security Records and Quantifying their Role for Wage Inequality

Project duration: 01.07.2023 to 01.08.2026

Abstract

We develop a method to impute capital stocks from investments for a sub-sample of firms in the German social security records and implement a machine-learning algorithm to predict capital stocks for the universe of firms. We make our data available for other researchers. We analyze wthether these capital stocks explain a sizeable fraction of wage inequality.

Management

01.07.2023 - 01.08.2026
01.07.2023 - 01.08.2026

Employee

Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage
01.07.2023 - 01.08.2026