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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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Income and wealth poverty in Germany

Köhler, Theresa - 2016

In general, poverty measures are estimated by applying income information. However, only using income data for calculating relative poverty might lead to an incomplete view. For example, a household can be under a poverty threshold even if a household member owns real estate or equity. In this...

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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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Equality of opportunity : East vs. West Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015

The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labor market integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990.Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how...

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Time and income poverty : an interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009

herausragendes Ergebnis für Deutschland: Substitution zwischen Zeit und Einkommen ist signifikant und wir finden einen hohen …

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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...

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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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