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Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600923
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600937
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Applications to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Oliver; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
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A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt? Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601039
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601067
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Reform der Arbeitslosen- und Sozialhilfe: ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?
Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 70 (2003) 19, pp. 309-315
Eines der Reformprojekte der Bundesregierung ist die Reform der Arbeitslosenund Sozialhilfe. Da Erwerbseinkommen bislang fast vollständig auf diese steuerfinanzierten Transferzahlungen angerechnet werden, gibt es für erwerbsfähige Leistungsbezieher wenig Anreize, eine Arbeit aufzunehmen. Im...
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Senkung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung: weniger Arbeitslosigkeit, mehr Effizienz
Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 70 (2003) 25, pp. 401-408
Deutschland wird von Wissenschaft und Politik unter anderem auch die Arbeitslosenversicherung verantwortlich gemacht. Insbesondere … Folgenden wird gezeigt, wie sich die Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland auf die Dauer und Betroffenheit von … in relativ geringem Maße. In Deutschland besteht somit ein erheblicher Reformbedarf beim Arbeitslosengeld und bei der …
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