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Income Taxation and Household Size : Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?
baclet, alexandre - 2006
in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147547
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Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus - 2021
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...
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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality : A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the Usa
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus; Schwarze, Johannes - 2021
SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325020
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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along the Productivity Distribution : First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Powell, David - 2010
manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139057
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Risky Choices and Solidarity : Why Experimental Design Matters
Wunsch, Conny - 2018
Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915180
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Unofficial Development Assistance : A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2011
specification. Using a newly assembled long panel of data, we find evidence of a strong, but diminishing fundraising effect. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127315
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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality : What is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952592
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Defaults and Donations : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Altmann, Steffen - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042970
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Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks are Non-Insurable
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129923