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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 societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292524
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Why has income inequality in Germany increased from 2002 to 2011? A behavioral microsimulation decomposition
Jessen, Robin - 2016
I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574118
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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt: Evidence from Germany
Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023
We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468200
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332141
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Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010
. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600932
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Income distribution and the fear of crime: Evidence from Germany
Acampora, Michelle; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2020
the aggregate level, the main driver is equally income polarization, whereas the standard measure of inequality, the Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012173603
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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory: Implications for poverty measurement
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022
Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164137
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Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541307
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Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State: The Case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129004
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Polarization of time and income - A multidimensional approach with well-being gap and minimum 2DGAP: German evidence
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2013
A growing polarization of society accompanied with an erosion of the middle class experiences more and more attention at least in the German recent economic and social policy discussion. Our study contributes to the polarization discussion with respect to multidimensional theoretical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322354