This paper investigates the major drivers of governmental redistribution. Extended and harmonised data on effective … redistribution recently provided by the newest version of the Standardized World Income Inequality Database allows for the assessment … of the origins of governmental redistribution for a broad sample of countries. Our findings confirm the Meltzer …

Germany’s economic and social policy for the past 60 years. However, Germany is increasingly failing to achieve this objective …. Germany is a country of enormous inequality - income, wealth and opportunities are distributed more unequally in Germany than … in almost any other industrialised country. This inequality imposes huge economic costs for Germany, as evidenced by …

Among all G20 countries, Germany has the lowest level of inequality in terms of disposable income. Germany's tax and … efficient growth and redistributive policies in the future, it is essential for Germany to maintain sufficient incentives for …

Deutschland zeigt allerdings Merkmale inkonsistenter Präferenzen. …An empirical analysis of voters’ demands for redistributive measures during the energy crisis in Germany reveals three …

To support higher education, the public sector in Germany makes inter alia use of transfers in kind. With respect to … upstream stages of the educational system which are constitutive for the redistribution effects. …