Similar Search Results

Taxation, Insurance and Precautionary Labor

Netzer, Nick; Scheuer, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

appropriate means of redistribution in the presence of an optimally chosen tax schedule. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963706

Parties Matter in Allocating Expenditures: Evidence from Germany

Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

I test if parties matter with respect to the allocation of public expenditures in Germany. Considering the allocation of rights and duties due to the federal structure, two econometric models are estimated. First, a SURE model analyses spending at the federal level for the period from 1950 to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068742

Political Effects on the Allocation of Public Expenditures: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper examines the effects of political determinants on the allocation of public expenditures. Analyzing an OECD panel from 1990 to 2004, a SURE model controls for the contemporaneous correlation between the different expenditure categories (COFOG). I find that left governments set other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068766

Social Expenditures as a Political Cue Ball?: OECD Countries under Examination

Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper examines how policy affects social expenditures. Analyzing an OECD panel from 1980 to 2003, five political variables are tested: Election- and pre-election years, the ideological party composition of the governments, the number of coalition partners and the fact, if the ruling...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069042

Voting, Inequality, and Redistribution

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

This paper surveys models of voting on redistribution. Under reasonable assumptions, the baseline model produces an …, redistribution is from rich to poor. Increasing inequality increases redistribution. However, under different assumptions about the … economic environment, redistribution may not be simply rich to poor, and inequality need not increase redistribution. Several …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963760

Voting on Redistribution with Tax Evasion

Borck, Rainald - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can evade taxes, which leads to penalties if evasion is detected. Since preferences satisfy neither single peakedness nor single crossing, an equilibrium may not exist. When it does...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963776

Fairness of Public Pensions and Old-Age Poverty

Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963982

Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction ; A Revised Version

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068871

Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068921

Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068998