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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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Reforming social welfare as we know it? : a microsimulation study for Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Jacobebbinghaus, Peter - 2003

supply/demand model embedded in a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation model. We find that the reductions in net social …

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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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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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Relative earnings and the demand for unskilled labor in West German manufacturing

Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in German manufacturing, in particular the role played by the relatively rigid earnings structure. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill-biased...

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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert D. - 1998

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....

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Wages in the East German transition process : facts and explanations

Franz, Wolfgang; Steiner, Viktor - 1999

We analyze wage developments in the East German transition process both at the macro and at the microeconomic level. At the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages, describe the development of various wage measures, labor...

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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