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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state: The case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332141
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Factor shares and income inequality: Empirical evidence from Germany 2002 - 2008
Adler, Martin; Schmid, Kai Daniel - 2012
We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287225
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Income polarization and economic growth
Brzezinski, Michal - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878126
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Poverty and Women’s Labor Market Activity: the Role of Gender Wage Discrimination in the EU
Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga; Río, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
The functioning of the labor market often has been stressed as a clear determinant in explaining poverty trends in developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU countries, linking two related phenomena that rarely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413382
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Equivalence scales reconsidered – an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
Households can differ in size and needs. A reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore … by means of an inequality decomposition by household types. Country inequality rankings are sensitive to the conversion … strategy applied. The decomposition analysis reveals the underlying mechanisms. We find inequality estimates typically to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413420
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Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State: The Case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129004
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Factor Shares and Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Germany 2002-2008
Adler, Martin; Schmid, Kai Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010564002