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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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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007

Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....

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The impact of demographic dynamics on economic development, poverty and inequality in Mozambique

Klasen, Stephan; Woltermann, Silke - 2005

poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of … per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population … household size on poverty and inequality appears to have fallen in recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thus demographic …

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Poverty, Inequality and Health: A case study of Armenia

Tonoyan, Tamara - 2005

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality …

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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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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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Tax Distortion, Countervailing Subsidies and Income Redistribution

Barbaro, Salvatore - 2004

A persistent controversy in the economics of higher education is the distributional consequences of tuition-fee subsidies. There are two points at issue. First, subsidies affect income distribution between rich and poor households, analyzed by cross-sectional studies. Second, there may also be...

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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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