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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility
Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain how it was possible both for "the poor" to have fared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439136
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Fiscal federalism and tax administration : evidence from Germany
Bönke, Timm; Jochimsen, Beate; Schröder, Carsten - 2013
In many federations, fiscal equalization schemes soften fiscal imbalances across the member states. Such schemes usually imply that the member states internalize only a small fraction of the additional tax revenue from an expansion of the state-specific tax bases, while the remainder of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763797
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Poverty in Germany : statistical inference and decomposition
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … have the highest poverty risk. Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the … period under investigation: the incidence and the intensity of poverty are substantially higher in the New states. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267905