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Explaining rising Income inequality in Germany, 1991-2010

Schmid, Kai Daniel; Stein, Ulrike - 2013

in the distribution of market income as well as shifts in the effectiveness of public redistribution mechanisms. We find … decreasing effectiveness of the public mechanisms of income redistribution are the main explanatory factors for the development …

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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

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...

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...

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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 …

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Nominal or real? The impact of regional price levels on satisfaction with life

Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2013

We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of life satisfaction. Previous work, however, has only studied the impact of nominal income. We use...

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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...

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