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Income Inequality and Poverty in Front of and During the Economic Crisis – An Empirical Investigation for Germany 2002-2010
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … Germany in front of and during the economic crisis 2008-2010. This comprises binary logistic regressions where it is tested … the crisis – in 2009 – inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101872
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Income inequality and poverty in front of and during the economic crisis: An empirical investigation for Germany 2002 - 2010
Falk, Jürgen - 2012
Auf der Basis von Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) werden Einkommensungleichheit und -armut in Deutschland vor …Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … Germany in front of and during the economic crisis 2008-2010. This comprises binary logistic regressions where it is tested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286914
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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605
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Impacts of an ageing society on macroeconomics and income inequality : the case of Germany since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
The discussion paper is concerned with the interplay between demography and macroeconomics on one hand and macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681277
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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality – The Case of Germany Since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
The discussion paper is concerned with the interplay between demography and macroeconomics on one hand and macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096398
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal equivalence scales for West Germany based on subjective data on life satisfaction : paper presented at the fifth meeting of the Society for the Stu...
Faik, Jürgen - 2013
German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128357
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Income inequality and poverty in front of and during the economic crisis - An empirical investigation for Germany 2002-2010
Faik, Jürgen - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … Germany in front of and during the economic crisis 2008-2010. This comprises binary logistic regressions where it is tested … the crisis – in 2009 – inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163083
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An Adverse Social Welfare Consequence of a Rich-To-Poor Income Transfer : A Relative Deprivation Approach
Stark, Oded - 2017
A transfer from a richer individual to a poorer one seems to be the most intuitive and straightforward way of reducing income inequality in a society. However, can such a transfer reduce the welfare of the society? We show that a rich-to-poor transfer can induce a response in the individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945812
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An adverse social welfare consequence of a rich-to-poor income transfer : a relative deprivation approach
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2017
A transfer from a richer individual to poorer A transfer from a richer individual to poorer seems to be the most seems to be the most intuitive and straightforward way of reducing income inequality in a society. However, can such a transfer reduce the welfare of the society? We show that a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736621
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An adverse social welfare consequence of a rich-to-poor income transfer : a relative deprivation approach
Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz; Jakubek, Marcin - 2017
A transfer from a richer individual to a poorer one seems to be the most intuitive and straightforward way of reducing income inequality in a society. However, can such a transfer reduce the welfare of the society? We show that a rich-to-poor transfer can induce a response in the individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730204