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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2018
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective. In … role in welfare states with aging societies. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution diverges from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911179
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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany
Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023
Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific … rich, support for redistribution in Germany is not motivated by the urge to castigate this group for their affluence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234221
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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 examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241628
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Immigrant voters, taxation and the size of the welfare state
Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2018
document a strong persistence of the effect. The initial migration shock changed the preferences for redistribution of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930201
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824272
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Pension wealth and the gender wealth gap
Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2021
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of women and men, we are able and identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension rights reduces the gap. The empirical basis of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587610
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Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
against income risks. But studies measuring redistribution often focus only on a one-year period. Using German SOEP data from …-individual component. Results show that annual inequality is higher than long-term inequality, but redistribution is also larger annually …. In the long-term, the German welfare state clearly gives priority to insurance over redistribution. This gets even more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407820
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Financing social security : simulating different welfare state systems for Germany
Dieckhoener, Caroline; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635011
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Improving the coverage of the top-wealth population in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schröder, Carsten; Bartels, Charlotte; Göbler, Konstantin - 2020
We have developed and implemented a new sampling strategy to better represent very wealthy individuals in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our strategy is based on the empirical regularity that the very wealthy have at least part of their assets invested in businesses, and that businesses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390086
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Multidimensional measurement of richness : theory and an application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825579