We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …

, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002–17) to examine the level of and inequality in wealth for children … from single-parent families using recentred influence function regression and decomposition analysis. We replicate earlier …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …

Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …

conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. -- income … distribution ; inequality ; inequality decomposition ; equivalence scale …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …

significantly since 1993 in the New German Laender. -- Pensioner ; Inequality ; Inequality Decomposition ; German Sample Survey …We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by …