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increasingly important in-kind benefit in Germany. We find that both multidimensional inequality and poverty declined as expanded … if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany … poverty indices using SOEP data from 1991-2012. We distinguish between parental and publicly provided childcare, which is an …
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Germany during the last three decades. Hereby, we take advantage of information contained in 25 waves of the Socio …-Economic Panel. Our analysis shows that in Germany IOP declined immediately after reunification, increased in the first decade of the … individuals that resided in West-Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, whose fathers had a high occupational position, and …
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In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality...
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over cohorts on the distribution of net wealth we impose the homeownership pattern of the US on Germany and ask: What would … the net wealth distribution in Germany look like if German households were distributed across tenure status along cohorts … to the wealth distribution. Imposing the structure of the US on Germany leads to a large increase in the German median …
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Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …
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poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …
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subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but …
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solely to Germany. Additionally, when we introduce the empirical evidence that capital income grows faster than non …
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Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use microlevel panel data of German income tax files...
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simulating legislative definitions of capital income prevailing in Germany between 2001 and 2010. For both simulation and the …
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