This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if … with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM estimator and use the presumably random incidence of certain … reduces inequality levels. The result is robust with respect to the instrument count and different data restrictions. Looking …

macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric …; afterwards, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the …

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic … 2009 (compared with 2007/2008). -- Income and poverty ; inequality ; economic crisis …

the ongoing policy debate in Germany. In this paper, we compare the progressivity and redistribution induced by the tax … tax benefit systems in a common framework. We compute several measures of progressivity and redistribution for the whole … the countries according to their progressivity and level of redistribution. Our analysis shows that there is considerable …

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 …

the aggregate level, the main driver is equally income polarization, whereas the standard measure of inequality, the Gini …