Similar Search Results

From gross wages to net household income : a distributional analysis of the gender wage gap ; conference paper

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2014

distribution. This is particularly relevant from a policy perspective because of its implications for income inequality and working …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487268

Behavioral effects of a federal minimum wage and income inequality in Germany : conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for different minimum wage levels on the basis of a … microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household level …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341614

A new semiparamtetric approach to analysing conditional income distributions : conference paper

Sohn, Alexander; Klein, Nadja; Kneib, Thomas - 2014 - Working version 0.1

In this paper we explore the possibility of the application of GAMLSS regression techniques for the analysis of income distributions in Germany following the reunification. We find that conditional income distributions can generally be modelled using the three parameter Dagum distribution and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491093

Declining tax progression and the German dual income tax : conference paper

Jenderny, Katharina - 2013 - Preliminary version

This paper analyzes the effect of the introduction of a final withholding tax on capital income on the progression of the German income tax. As previous literature shows, even with synthetic income taxation, tax progression was strongest in the middle of the income distribution, and decreased...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337865

Inequality and the marriage gap : conference paper

Siassi, Nawid - 2014

Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489954

Housing inequality and how fiscal policy shapes it : evidence from Belgian real estate

Domènech-Arumì, Gerard; Gobbi, Paula E.; Magerman, Glenn - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022

We use detailed information on all real estate stock and transactions since 2006 to study housing inequality in Belgium … then estimate inequality in value or space at different levels of aggregation - from the federal to the local neighborhood … level. Overall inequality is relatively low (Gini of 0.25), but significant heterogeneity exists across and within …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443738

Monopsony competition and the minimum wage : evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2014 - Preliminary

This paper investigates the degree of monoposony power of German employers in different industries, using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee data set which allows us to control for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483879

The German part-time wage gap : bad news for men ; conference paper

Wolf, Elke - 2013

Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I therefore use GSOEP panel data from 1984 to 2010 and apply different econometric approaches and definitions of part-time work to measure the so-called part-time wage gap of both,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338945

Analyzing economic policies that affect supply and demand : a structural model of productivity, labor supply and rationing ; conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2014

In this paper a labor supply model with demand side rationing is estimated to analyze the economic policies that directly affect incentives to work as well as labor costs. The framework is applied to evaluate the employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany and the impact of employer-...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486670

Welfare transitions before and after reforms of the German welfare system

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2013

We study state dependence in the German welfare system and compare transition patterns before and after recent reforms of the welfare system (Hartz Reforms). Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that welfare transitions have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344640

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last