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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption: Efficient, but regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013
on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332150
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Why Are Middle-Aged People so Depressed? Evidence from West Germany
Brockmann, Hilke - 2009
Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et al. 1999; Argyle 2001). Others hold that the association is U-shaped with either highest depression rates (Mroczek and Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600876
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Dynamics of income rank volatility: Evidence from Germany and the US
Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017
This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals' relative positions in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748468
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The working class left behind? The class gap in life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland over the last decades
Lipps, Oliver; Oesch, Daniel - 2017
The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment and wage stagnation. We examine whether the growing economic disparity between the top and the bottom of Germany's class structure was accompanied by a widening class gap in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776432
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Offshoring, employment, labour market reform and inequality: Modelling the German experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joel - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
scenario in which offshoring explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the …, amplifying the rise in inequality. The model outcomes are consistent with all the developments of the German economy since 1995 … comes with both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The setting of the labour market reform reduces unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878140
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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896280
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Why Are Middle-Aged People so Depressed?: Evidence from West Germany
Brockmann, Hilke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et al. 1999; Argyle 2001). Others hold that the association is U-shaped with either highest depression rates (Mroczek and Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611297