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Poverty in Germany: Statistical inference and decomposition
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … have the highest poverty risk. Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the … period under investigation: the incidence and the intensity of poverty are substantially higher in the New states. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285724
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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296295
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324347
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The German spatial poverty divide: poorly endowed or bad luck?
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2009
We study inter-temporal changes in poverty for Germany from year 1978 to 2003, and we employ the bootstrap method to … test for statistical significance of results. All results are decomposed by household type and region. Poverty estimates … are particularly high for single parents. Most striking, however, is the poverty divide between the old and newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299159
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German economy currently scarcely making headway
Bönke, Timm; Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Baldi, Guido; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 13 (2023) 36/37, pp. 245-253
Following the winter recession and stagnation in the second quarter of 2023, the economic upswing is proceeding at a sluggish pace, contrary to expectations over the summer. Weak foreign demand and ongoing inflation have proven to be slowing economic growth. For the time being, private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014367671
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New DIW Berlin model can nowcast the current income distribution: Inequality likely to slightly increase in 2023
Bönke, Timm; Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Pagenhardt, Laura - In: DIW Weekly Report 13 (2023) 43/44, pp. 283-289
The unequal distribution of labor income in Germany is a hotly debated topic among policymakers and the general public alike. However, the relevant data for calculating the distribution is usually available with a delay of sometimes over two years. Accordingly, previous studies have only been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014440498
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DIW Berlin economic forecast: Forecast ranges from cloudy to bright
Bönke, Timm; Dany-Knedlik, Geraldine; Baldi, Guido; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 13 (2023) 50/52, pp. 305-313
The recovery of the German economy is becoming an exercise in patience. In the third quarter of 2023 the economy fared worse than expected, in particular because private households continued to spend their money conservatively despite climbing wages and falling inflation. Both private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469089
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens for the period from 1978 to 2003, focussing on differences between retired and non-retired elderly and between elderly with residence in the Old and the New German Laender....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296302
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Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Schulte, Katharina - 2008
We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens for the period from 1978 to 2003, focussing on differences between retired and non-retired elderly and between elderly with residence in the Old and the New German Laender....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299132
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Horizontal equity in the German tax-benefit system: A simulation approach for employees
Bönke, Timm; Eichfelder, Sebastian - 2010
We analyze the distributive justice of the combined burden of taxes, social security contributions and public transfers on employee households. In order to investigate whether the treatment of families by the aggregate tax-benefit system can be regarded as 'fair', we compare the equivalent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300710