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Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2006

Different family types may have a fixed flow of consumption costs, related to subsistence needs. We use a survey method in order to identify and estimate such a fixed component of spending for different families. Our method involves making direct questions about the linkup between aggregate...

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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany

Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …

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Equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption expenditure microdata: The case of West Germany

Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - 1992

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

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Right-wing extremism and the well-being of immigrants

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009

This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...

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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

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Intensity of time and income interdependent multidimensional poverty: Well-being and minimum 2DGAP - German evidence

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …

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The hidden burden of the income tax: Compliance costs of German individuals

Blaufus, Kay; Eichfelder, Sebastian; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen - 2011

We analyze the compliance costs of individual taxpyers resulting from the German income tax. using survey data that has been raised between December 2008 and April 2009, we find evidence for a considerably higher cost burden of self-employed taxpaxers. Taxable income and the demand for external...

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Horizontal equity in the German tax-benefit system: A simulation approach for employees

Bönke, Timm; Eichfelder, Sebastian - 2010

We analyze the distributive justice of the combined burden of taxes, social security contributions and public transfers on employee households. In order to investigate whether the treatment of families by the aggregate tax-benefit system can be regarded as 'fair', we compare the equivalent...

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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008

Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010

Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance...

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