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Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - Finanzwissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitut, … - 2006

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyse the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to the other EU-15 countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. The latter … decreasing. The cross country analysis yields several groups of countries according to their values of poverty and richness …

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Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

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Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1978-2009: A Decomposition Approach

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...

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Tax policy and income inequality in the U.S., 1978—2009: A decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

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The Development of Multidimensional Poverty in Germany 1985-2007

Busch, Christopher; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

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Measuring distributional effects of fiscal reforms

Peichl, Andreas; Ochmann, Richard - Finanzwissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitut, … - 2006

poverty and richness. The concept of inequality and the concept of income poverty are the by far most widely applied concepts …

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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality: Theory and evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...

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