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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality : A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2011
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132275
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Public versus Private Education with Risky Human Capital
Kindermann, Fabian - 2009
This paper studies the long-run macroeconomic, distributional and welfare effects of tuition policy and student loans. We therefore form a rich model of risky human capital investment based on the seminal work of Heckman, Lochner and Taber (1998). We extend their original model by variable labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199814
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...
Hajek, André - 2011
In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128105
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117988
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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality – The Case of Germany Since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
macroeconomic variables inflation, economic growth, and unemployment are at first connected with the German demographic ageing … increases (reductions) – of economic growth rates, and c) a somewhat stronger positive impact of demographic ageing on … correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096398
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The Evolution of Income Inequality in Germany and Switzerland Since the Turn of the Millennium
Grabka, Markus - 2012
participation — but not economic growth, globalization, or sectoral change — are potential explanations. The decomposition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101854
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Completing the Bathtub? : The Development of Top Incomes in Germany, 1907-2007
Anselmann, Christina - 2012
This paper examines the evolution of top incomes in Germany from 1907-2007 with a special focus on past decades. A more detailed analysis of German top incomes is conducted, beginning with a review of selected income distribution measures which indicate that high incomes have played a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101855
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Factor Shares and Income Inequality — Empirical Evidence from Germany 2002-2008
Adler, Martin - 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/10013101862
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Income Inequality and Poverty in Front of and During the Economic Crisis – An Empirical Investigation for Germany 2002-2010
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
calculations are correlated with the macroeconomic variables economic growth, inflation, and general unemployment. At the peak of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101872
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Income Comparison, Income Formation, and Subjective Well-Being : New Evidence on Envy versus Signaling
Welsch, Heinz - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082617