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Income inequality and poverty in front of and during the economic crisis: An empirical investigation for Germany 2002 - 2010
Falk, Jürgen - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286914
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Impacts of an ageing society on macroeconomics and income inequality: The case of Germany since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric …; afterwards, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290732
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Income Inequality and Poverty in Front of and during the Economic Crisis: An Empirical Investigation for Germany 2002-2010
Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128947
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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality: The Case of Germany since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the … correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128974
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal equivalence scales for West Germany based on subjective data on life satisfaction: Paper presented at the fifth meeting of the Society for the Stud...
Faik, Jürgen - 2013
The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the individual variant for calculating subjective equivalence scales using life satisfaction as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332020
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Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Equivalence Scales for West Germany Based on Subjective Data on Life Satisfaction
Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating subjective equivalence scales using "life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185783
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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600912
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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636406
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Dynamics of income rank volatility: Evidence from Germany and the US
Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017
This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals' relative positions in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748468
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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness
Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2017
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795302