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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994
, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290104
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290126
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups … income ; inequality ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667623
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Two scales, one methodology : expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 1994
, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for … ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667627
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed : Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779051
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Optimal Income Taxation of Married Couples : An Empirical Analysis of Joint and Individual Taxation
Haan, Peter; Navarro, Dolores - 2021
In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324796
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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600982
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Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285751
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Empirical welfare analysis in random utility models of labour supply
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2010
The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008827011
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A switch from joint to individual taxation is welfare improving
Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - 2011
In this paper we empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint taxation with full income splitting to a revenue neutral system of individual taxation in Germany. For the empirical welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity in the population and use normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579606