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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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Measurement of Health, the Sensitivity of the Concentration Index, and Reporting Heterogeneity
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self … indices. Moreover, with the use of SF12, a generic health measure, the inequality indicator is reduced by a factor of ten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018707
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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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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
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Effective Taxation of Top Incomes in Germany, 1992 - 2002
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
We analyze the taxation of top personal incomes in Germany on the basis of an integrated data file of individual tax returns and a general household survey for the years 1992 - 2002. The unique feature of this integrated data set is that it includes all taxpayers in the top percentile of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963792
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Measurement of Health, the Sensitivity of the Concentration Index, and Reporting Heterogeneity
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self … indices. Moreover, with the use of SF12, a generic health measure, the inequality indicator is reduced by a factor of ten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069013
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583479
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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 - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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/10009150563
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Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State: The Case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129004