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Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763539
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The development of multidimensional poverty in Germany 1985 - 2007
Busch, Christopher; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269813
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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1978 - 2009: A decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2011
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278404
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Partisan tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979 - 2007
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2013
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291407
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Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246707
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Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931566
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The Development of Multidimensional Poverty in Germany 1985-2007
Busch, Christopher; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506071
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Measuring richness and poverty: a micro data application to Europe and Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - 2008
demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268964
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Lower and Upper Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity for Emerging Economies
Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas; Weishaar, Daniel - 2021
Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal of distributive justice. In spite of its wide acceptance and economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations that can lead to both downward and upward biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658259
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An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014
We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468123