A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

When comparing tax benefit systems across Europe, Germany is usually regarded as a country with a high level of taxes … the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax … tax benefit systems in a common framework. We compute several measures of progressivity and redistribution for the whole …

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if … with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM estimator and use the presumably random incidence of certain … reduces inequality levels. The result is robust with respect to the instrument count and different data restrictions. Looking …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of …