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Comment on Feige's paper "Reflections on the meaning and measurement of unobserved economies : what do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?"

Schneider, Friedrich - 2016

This comment provides a reply to Prof. Feige's paper with the title "Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?", in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show that the same critique which Prof. Feige raises against...

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Reference income effects in the determination of equivalence scales using income satisfaction data

Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Kuhställer, Carina - 2016

We estimate household equivalence scales using income satisfaction data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We extend previous studies applying this approach by taking reference income into account. This allows separating needs-based from reference effects in the determination of income...

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008

issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage … in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum …

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Earnings dynamics in Germany

Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2021

This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from German tax records. I find that labor earnings display important deviations from the typical assumptions of linearity and normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes...

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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the …

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Zuwanderungsmotive und Erwerbseinkommen von Migranten

Brenke, Karl; Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 72 (2005) 46, pp. 695-703

enthalten Befragungsergebnisse über Zuwanderer aus nichtwestlichen Industriestaaten in Deutschland und Dänemark. Die … Gründen nach Deutschland oder Dänemark gezogen sind, konnten sich schlechter als die Arbeitsimmigranten in den Arbeitsmarkt … integrieren - das gilt für Deutschland noch mehr als für Dänemark. Eine ergänzende Untersuchung anhand des Sozio …

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Empfinden die Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland ihre Einkommen als gerecht?

Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Wochenbericht 72 (2005) 48, pp. 721-725

In der sozial- und arbeitsmarktpolitischen Reformdebatte in Deutschland nimmt die Forderung nach einer Erhöhung der … Besserung der wirtschaftlichen Lage in Deutschland. Im Rahmen seiner Langzeitstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) hat das DIW …

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Negatives Kapitalkonto

In: Der langfristige Kredit : Zeitschrift für … 30 (1979) 24, pp. 757-758

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Der neue Bauherren-Erlaß

In: Der langfristige Kredit : Zeitschrift für … 32 (1981) 21/22, pp. 689-692

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