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Imagining an inclusive economy : the role of SMEs and digital payment in elevating economic equality

Khoifin, Kiki; Achyar, Dzakiyy Hadiyan - 2023

Central to this study are small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and mainstreaming digital features that transform access to finance in imagining an inclusive economy. Underlining the advancement in technology, especially in the context of a digital payment system, perpetuates the...

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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German Case

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016 - This version: April 2016

Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...

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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015

In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...

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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 changes, and population changes while considering labor supply reactions. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), I apply this method to decompose the increase in income...

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The distribution of economic resources to children in Germany

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2017

This paper investigates the redistributive impact of private and public childcare provision and education on children's resources in Germany between 2009 and 2013. It takes account of the multidimensionality of children's needs and access to economic resources by applying an extended income...

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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11

Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016 - This version: 15 December 2016

We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trendwas stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other factors,...

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Verbunden über Generationen : Struktur und Ausmaß der intergenerationalen Einkommensmobilität in Deutschland

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2008

Deutschland. Anhand der Daten des deutschen sozioökonomischen Panels ist es möglich, sowohl Vater-Sohn als auch Vater …-Tochter Paare von 0,2. Das bedeutet, in Deutschland werden im Durchschnitt 17 % bzw. 20 % des elterlichen Einkommensvorteils bzw … belegen für Deutschland ein hohes Maß an intergenerationaler Mobilität. …

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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective

Bičáková, Alena; Sierminska, Eva - 2008 - This version: February 2008

This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage...

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

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Development of wage inequality for natives and immigrants in Germany : evidence from quantile regression and decomposition

Peters, Heiko - 2008

To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the...

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