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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017459
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963679
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Comparing Wealth: Data Quality of the HFCS
Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro‐countries after the financial crisis of 2007/8. The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266591
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Representative Wealth Data for Germany from the German SOEP: The Impact of Methodological Decisions around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth … wealth holders (increasing on average by 15%) and also on aggregate wealth (plus 30%). However, with respect to inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017464
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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing … choice of method. Although the substantive notion of reduced inequality is stable, the degree of variation in our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018735
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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany
Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
definition of the aggregation unit and by controlling its effect on distribution and inequality analysis. We find empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018748
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A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt?: Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283553
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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany
Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
definition of the aggregation unit and by controlling its effect on distribution and inequality analysis. We find empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963727
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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963737
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Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
, the income tax is effectively progressive; (v) income taxation substantially reduces income inequality in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963744