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This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
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Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for...
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …
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