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Don’t tax me? : Determinants of individual attitudes toward progressive taxation
Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja - 2010
use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward …, fairness considerations, economic beliefs and several other individual factors drive individual preferences for tax rate … in attitudes toward progressive taxation. Rather, we show that the choice of the favoured tax rate is also driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951035
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Individual determinants of social fairness assessments : the case of Germany
Bischoff, Ivo (contributor);  … - 2008
In this contribution we study the determinants of how individuals assess the social fairness of a given income …: first fairness preferences, second beliefs on the sources of economic success and the functioning of democracy and third … indicate that self-interest, beliefs and fairness preferences jointly shape fairness assessments. In addition, a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751302
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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
identify the causal effect of increased learning intensity on Inequality of Educational Opportunity (IEOp), the share in … learning intensity had no short-term effect on IEOp. In the medium term, however, IEOp increased as differences in parental … increasing the efficiency of educational systems and to the role of learning intensity for explaining changes in educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590
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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons : indirect evidence from immigrants’ return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857716
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Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
Existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has failed to address the question as to how the circumstances and choices of spouses in a couple should be treated. By omitting information relevant to the spouse in IOp estimations, the implicit assumption was full responsibility for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527119
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Gender differences in German wage mobility
Aretz, Bodo - 2013
This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686463
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Does immigration weaken natives’ support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923101
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Determinants of child care participation
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Goeggel, Kathrin (contributor);  … - 2007
When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the decision to use child care is a major challenge. In this study, we provide evidence on the determinants of institutional child care use accounting for the endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607689
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Choosing from the reform menu card : individual determinants of labour market policy preferences
Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor);  … - 2009
-interest, information, fairness judgements, economic beliefs and other individual factors such as socialisation under the communist regime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806186
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Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms : an empirical analysis of reference points near a border
Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - 2011 - This version: March 2011
Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. This paper evaluates the validity of such restriction by studying German local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905492