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 …

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 …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of …

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

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 …

Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives …. The introduction of the Social-democratic Danish financing system decreases inequality of incomes, but does not …