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Poverty Alleviation and the Degree of Centralisation in European Schemes of Social Assistance
Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - 2003
developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298133
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Underdiversification in Private Companies: Required Returns and Incentive Effects
Müller, Elisabeth - 2004
Owners of private companies are often highly underdiversified which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. We investigate the consequences of underdiversification at the company level. Information on US companies and their owners is obtained from the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297370
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Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics in Poland: Family Background and Children's Educational Attainment During Transition
Lauer, Charlotte; Beblo, Miriam - 2002
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through … on children´s education. We conclude that, if poverty transmission takes place between generations, this seems to be … primarily caused by the inheritance of human capital rather than by pure wealth effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298087
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297429
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460699
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Underdiversification in Private Companies: Required Returns and Incentive Effects
Müller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
Owners of private companies are often highly underdiversified which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. We investigate the consequences of underdiversification at the company level. Information on US companies and their owners is obtained from the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098148
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122566
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2008
-distribution method. Poverty and inequality decline overall, since households with children and low income gain, while those who used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297991
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Trends in the German income distribution: 2005/06 to 2010/11
Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575160