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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007

conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …

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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …

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Erhöht die Riester-Förderung die Sparneigung von Geringverdienern?

Schröder, Carsten; Keese, Matthias; Corneo, Giacomo - 2007

Die Riester-Förderung soll dazu beitragen, dass häufiger und mehr für die Altersvorsorge gespart wird. Der Einfluss der Riester-Förderung auf die Sparneigung von Haushalten mit niedrigem Einkommen ist dabei ein zentrales Kriterium zur ökonomischen Evaluation dieser Politik. Unsere...

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Can governments boost voluntary retirement savings via tax incentives and subsidies? A German case study for low-income households

Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2008

Since 2002 the German government has promoted private retirement saving plans by means of special subsidies and tax incentives (Riester scheme). This policy mainly targets low-income households. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, we scrutinize the impact of the Riester scheme on...

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Confronting the Robinson Crusoe paradigm with household-size heterogeneity

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2008

Modern macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind economic actions by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. This analytical approach requires that incentives of the poor and the rich are strictly aligned. In empirical analysis a...

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On the redistributive effects of Germany's feed-in tariff

Grösche, Peter; Schröder, Carsten - 2011

facilities. The redistributive effects of the feed-in tariff are evaluated by means of various inequality indices. All the … inequality measures indicate that Germany's feed-in tariff is mildly regressive. …

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Confronting the Robinson Crusoe Paradigm with Household-Size Heterogeneity

Koulovatianos, Christos - 2008

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Fast methods for jackknifing inequality indices

Karoly, Lynn; Schröder, Carsten - 2013

time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …

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Evaluating how child allowances and daycare subsidies affect fertility

Goldstein, Joshua R.; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian; … - 2017 - This version: January 31, 2017

We compare the cost effectiveness of two pronatalist policies: (a) child allowances; and (b) daycare subsidies. We pay special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on...

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