microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …

We study the political economy of commuting subsidies in a model of a monocentric city with two income classes … suburbs. Commuting subsidies increase the net income of those with long commutes or high transport costs. They also affect … land rents and therefore the income of landowners. The paper studies how the locational pattern of the two income classes …

Based on six harmonized cross-sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure, we study inter … nonlinear Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is conducted to quantify the separate contribution of regional differences in households …' characteristics to the likelihood of being poor. Estimates from the decomposition indicate that differences in the distributions of …