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Happy taxpayers? : income taxation and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2012

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax...

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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010

substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …

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Representative wealth data for Germany from the German SOEP : the impact of methodological decisions around imputation and the choice of the aggregation unit

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2007

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the...

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP

Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? : an illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world

Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the...

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Extending the empirical basis for wealth inequality research using statistical matching of administrative and survey data

Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2011

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that...

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) : scope, evolution and enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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