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A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt? Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601039
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600937
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The distribution of economic resources to children in Germany
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2017
This paper investigates the redistributive impact of private and public childcare provision and education on children's resources in Germany between 2009 and 2013. It takes account of the multidimensionality of children's needs and access to economic resources by applying an extended income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641751
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Demografie und Ungleichheit: der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2009
In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600849
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600923
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Demografie und Ungleichheit: der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017400
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519438
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Improving the coverage of the top-wealth population in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schröder, Carsten; Bartels, Charlotte; Göbler, Konstantin - 2020
the top end of the wealth distribution in Germany. The SOEP-P population has about 21 times higher net wealth on average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427324
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A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt?: Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy
Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283553
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum: eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP
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/10011601004