Using the DYMIMIC approach, estimates of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and developed OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and in OECD...

Legislative bargaining theory suggests that fiscal transfers among member states of a federation are determined to a substantial degree by political bargaining powers. Malapportionment of the states' population in the legislature is claimed to lead to disproportionally higher benefits of...

The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the German government. For the first time, this paper provides information on the use of the Capability Approach in this reporting process to international readers. We show the...

The majority of the literature related to Amartya Senś Capability Approach (CA) has been devoted to questions of development and developing countries. In this paper, however, with a theoretical concept and first empirical results at hand, we shed some light on Senś argument that the CA is also...

This paper examines efforts to make work pay, concentrating on U.S. American and German policies and experiments. We are specifically interested in fleshing out the relevance of U.S. American models for a German context as well as the special characteristics of the German situation which do not...

In diesem Beitrag wird eine Zwischenbilanz nach 15 Monaten Experimentierphase mit dem so genannten "Einstiegsgeld in Baden-Württemberg" vorgelegt, die auf einer Sonderauswertung zum 31. März 2001 basiert (vgl. Dann et al. 2001). Das Einstiegsgeld ist ein zeitlich befristeter Einkommenszuschuss...