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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective
Bičáková, Alena (contributor);  … - 2008
rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726010
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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086
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Effective taxation of top incomes in Germany, 1992-2002
Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003651046
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Introducing Family Tax Splitting in Germany : How Would It Affect the Income Distribution and Work Incentives?
Steiner, Viktor (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyze the effects of three alternative proposals to reform the taxation of families relative to the current German system of joint taxation of couples and child allowances: a French-type family splitting and two full family splitting proposals. The empirical analysis of the effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003353662
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Income inequality in the 1990s : comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany
Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor);  … - 2006
and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business …-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed than were the gains in Germany over their 1990s business cycle (1991 … States and Great Britain the entire income distribution moved upward in the 1990s. In Germany, as was the case in the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003315460
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The impact of losses on income tax revenue and implicit tax rates of different income sources : evidence from microsimulation using tax statistics for Germany
Bach, Stefan; Buslei, Hermann - 2009
relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses from renting. Using micro data from tax statistics we analyze the income tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902662
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Keeping up with the Schmidts : an empirical test of relative deprivation theory in the neighbourhood context
Knies, Gundi (contributor); Burgess, Simon M. (contributor);  … - 2007
We test empirically whether people’s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory...
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Individual well-being in a dynamic perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003439993
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From bottom to top : the entire distribution of market income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan (contributor); Corneo, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2007
We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003440082
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Raising rivals' fixed (labor) costs : the Deutsche Post case
Heitzler, Sven; Wey, Christian - 2010
We analyze the bargaining problem of an incumbent firm and a union when the wage contract becomes generally binding. Our main application relates to competition among operators of mail delivery networks. We describe the Deutsche Post case which highlights the raising rivals' costs incentive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968689