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Equivalence Scales Based on Revealed Preference Consumption Expenditure Microdata - The Case of West Germany zu Lüneburg

Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1994

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

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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.; … - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 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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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 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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Zum Einkommensreichtum Älterer in Deutschland-Neue Reichtumskennzahlen und Ergebnisse aus der Lohnund Einkommensteuerstatistik (FAST 2001)

Böhm, Paul; Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2008

This contribution analyzes income richness of elder persons in Germany in 2001. Using actual data of the German Wage and Income Tax Statistics, which are particularly suitable for the analysis of high incomes, new richness indices are discussed and new results are presented. It appears that the...

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Tägliche Arbeitszeitmuster und Einkommen von Freien Berufen – Neue Ergebnisse aus der deutschen Zeitbudgeterhebung

Merz, Joachim; Böhm, Paul - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2006

Individual welfare analysis traditionally concentrates on monetary income. Recently the time dimension – the time needed to achieve income – is gaining importance (flexible working hours) for the analysis of income inequalities. Using the German Time Budget Survey 2001/2002 our study...

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Wirkungen alternativer Steuerreformmodelle auf die Einkommensverteilung von Freien und anderen Berufen

Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning; Zwick, Markus - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2006

entrepreneurs) and other socioeconomic groups. Additional the distribution of inequality of single socio-economic subgroups in … comparison to the overall inequality is analysed by using the decomposition method. The analysis is based on anonymised microdata …

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Polarisierung der Einkommen von Selbständigen? Zur Dynamik der Einkommensverteilung und der hohen Einkommen von Selbstständigen und abhängig Beschäftigten

Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2006

Can a polarization of the income of self-employed persons be discovered? How did the distribution of income in general and especially higher income of self-employed and employed persons develop since the nineties? These are the main questions we want to examine in this contribution. The subject...

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Hohe und niedrige Einkommen – Neue Ergebnisse zu Freien und anderen Berufen mit den Mikrodaten der Einkommensteuerstatistik

Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2006

The actual second Federal Poverty and Richness Report, too, has its focus on the two poles of the income distribution …: poverty and richness. For the first time a detailled distributional analysis is presented based on microdata of the German …

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Was fehlt in der EVS ? Eine Verteilungsanalyse hoher Einkommen mit der verknüpften Einkommensteuerstatistik für Selbständige und abhängig Beschäftigte

Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2001

An outstanding microdatabase for the analysis of income and its distribution is the Income and Consumption Survey (EVS). However, high income above the 35.000 DM household net income per month frontier are not available. In this study we analyse for the first time, which distributional...

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Time Use and Time Budgets – Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2009

“Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care...

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