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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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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...
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Redistribution and Insurance in the German Welfare State
Bartels, Charlotte - 2011
Welfare states redistribute both between individuals reducing annual inequality and over the life-cycle insuring … 1984 to 2009, long-term inequality over a 20-year period is computed and then decomposed into an inter- and intra …-individual component. Results show that annual inequality is higher than long-term inequality, but redistribution is also larger annually …
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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 particular, public pensions, that smooth incomes over the...
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Redistribution and Insurance in the German Welfare State
Bartels, Charlotte - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Welfare states redistribute both between individuals reducing annual inequality and over the life-cycle insuring … 1984 to 2009, long-term inequality over a 20-year period is computed and then decomposed into an inter- and intra …-individual component. Results show that annual inequality is higher than long-term inequality, but redistribution is also larger annually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399838
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Soziale Unterschiede in der Lebenserwartung: Möglichkeiten auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels
Kroll, Lars Eric; Lampert, Thomas - 2008
In diesem Beitrag werden Möglichkeiten zur Analyse sozialer Unterschiede in der Lebenserwartung auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) dargestellt. Einleitend wird ein Überblick über verschiedene Datenquellen zur Analyse sozial differenzieller Sterblichkeit gegeben und der...
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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...
Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601027
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The distribution of well-being among Europeans
Brandolini, Andrea; Rosolia, Alfonso - 2019
standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily … declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic convergence of new EU-accession countries. EU15 income inequality fell …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109657
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Growth, mobility and social welfare
Van de Gaer, Dirk; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2018
We propose a social welfare function to evaluate a profile of income streams and compare the welfare gain of the actual profile relative to the income profile where the individual receives his first period income in each period. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the welfare gain...
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Walls of glass: Measuring deprivation in social participation
Suppa, Nicolai - 2018
This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that...
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