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Why has income inequality in Germany increased from 2002 to 2011? A behavioral microsimulation decomposition
Jessen, Robin - 2016
I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574118
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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600912
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Inequality of opportunity in wealth: Levels, trends, and drivers
Graeber, Daniel; Hilbert, Viola; König, Johannes - 2023
While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374802
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Does job polarization explain the rise in earnings inequality? : evidence from Europe
Bussolo, Maurizio; Torre, Iván; Winkler, Hernan - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002427
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Individual Diversity and the Gini Decomposition
Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted as the degree of diversity of each individual from all other members of society. Among various possible forms of individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878125
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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636406
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Contributions of taxes and benefits to vertical, horizontal and redistributive effects
Urban, Ivica - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ
acknowledged approaches in the study of income inequality and redistribution: Kakwani’s (1984) decomposition of redistributive … inequality into contributions of different income components. The roles of taxes and benefits in achieving vertical, horizontal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583888
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The decomposition of well-being categories: An application to Germany
Faik, Jurgen; Fachinger, Uwe - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
In the paper, a combined approach is used to test for inequality differences of several well-being categories for a … number of groups of persons. Hereby, total inequality is decomposed into within- and into between-group/category inequality … (via a normalised coefficient of variation as the used inequality indicator). The decompositions are categorised into those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711922