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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty: Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP ; German Evidence
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601053
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Time and income poverty: an interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009
Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important dimension and the interdependence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269425
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Rational Poverty or Poor Rationality? The Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits
Riphahn, Regina T. - 2000
In several countries social assistance dependence has been increasing since the 1980s. After surveying the theoretical and empirical take-up literature, this study presents estimates of recent rates of non take-up of social assistance benefits. Once methodological shortcomings of prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276361
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Intensity of time and income interdependent multidimensional poverty: Well-being and minimum 2DGAP - German evidence
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282256
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Professions, entrepreneurs, employees and the new German tax (cut) reform 2000: A MICSIM microsimulation analysis of distributional impacts
Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning; Zwick, Markus - 2002
With the tax reform 2000 Germany has seen the implementation of the most ambitious tax reduction programme in its post-war history. In the period from 1998 to 2005, taxpayers will benefit substantially from net tax relief more than DM 100 billions in total. It is expected, that private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290103
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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994
Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic well-being income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290104
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Verteilungswirkungen der Steuerreform 2000/2005 im Vergleich zum 'Karlsruher Entwurf': Auswirkungen auf die Einkommensverteilung bei Selbständigen (Freie Berufe, Unternehmer) und a...
Merz, Joachim; Zwick, Markus - 2002
aktuellen Steuerreform 2000/2005 wird in Deutschland der Karlsruher Entwurf diskutiert, der versucht, über eine drastische …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290119
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Equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption expenditure microdata: The case of West Germany
Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - 1992
-Mikrodaten offenbarter Präferenzen für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1983 vor. Es ist ein Teil eines amerikanisch … Deutschland auf der Basis von aktuell verfügbaren individuellen Konsumausgaben zeigt eine Vielfalt interessanter Resultate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290122
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
Mikrodaten von Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten der Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) werden verwendet, um die … Merz et al. (1993) für Deutschland und die Vereinigten Staaten entwickelt wurden. Frühere Studien bestätigend zeigen wir …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290126
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De facto anonymised microdata file on income tax statistics 1998
Merz, Joachim; Vorgrimler, Daniel; Zwick, Markus - 2006
Deutschland zum ersten Mal Mikrodaten aus dem Bereich der Finanzstatistik. Die Wissenschaft kann diese Daten nutzen, um politisch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290467