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The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union

Corak, Miles; Lietz, Christine; Sutherland, Holly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …

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Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income

Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the long-standing arguments recommending its inclusion in the tax base, on both equity and efficiency grounds. The current fiscal crisis revived interest towards this form of taxation. The paper investigates the fiscal...

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education 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...

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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

alternative private investments, our results indicate that they do not coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other … consideration of all components of private investment income for the purpose of welfare analysis, be they of a monetary or non …

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Wealth Distribution within Couples

Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...

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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Sierminska, Eva; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of …

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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

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