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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682910
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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the IOWA-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
with external validation techniques) produce acceptable results and confirm the measurement instrument as valid and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855644
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A Switch from Joint to Individual Taxation Is Welfare Improving
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper we empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint taxation with full income splitting to a revenue neutral system of individual taxation in Germany. For the empirical welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity in the population and use normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368912
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693466
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783996
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Accounting for Poverty Differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963674
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Longer Life, Higher Welfare?
Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Whereas life expectancy continues to increase in most industrialized countries many developing and transition countries are today confronted with decreases in life expectancy. Usual measures employed to compare welfare over time and space fail to deal with such demographic change and may lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963677
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and Its Causes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963692
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963796
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Decomposing Permanent and Transitory Poverty
Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality can also be acquired to describe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963854