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Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...
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This paper explores the nexus between the phenomenon of increasing income inequality and redistributive effects of the public sector. In an empirical analysis of seven OECD countries the redistributive effect will be examined by measuring the difference between inequality of market incomes and...
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This paper develops a stylized short-run neo-Kaleckian model incorporating personal income inequality and income taxes based on You and Dutt (1996). The main goal is to investigate how changes in income taxes and personal income distribution affect output growth. The theoretical discussion of...
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This study on Germany examines the long-run changes between the financial and the non-financial sectors of the economy … financial and economic crisis and examines the causes of the quick recovery in Germany. …
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and economic crises for Germany, one of the major mercantilist export-led economies. The analysis builds on a Kaleckian …, we show that Germany saw considerable re-distribution of income starting in early 1980s, which accelerated in the early … existence of each of these channels in Germany since the mid-1990s, when several institutional changes provided the conditions …
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In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...
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effectively. In Germany, as in other European countries, child care subsidies are mainly provided 'in-kind'. Local communities and … the distributional effects of state funded child day care in Germany using microdata of households and data on the …
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estimated for the United States and Germany. The finding of previous studies regarding a higher elasticity of aggregate … cascades from the very top to the very bottom of the distribution. For Germany, we fail to find compelling evidence for …
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