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Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparison using LIS data

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010

comparing tax progression and present here twelve (Germany, the UK and the US) plus four comparing Germany and Sweden out of the … the US, the UK, and Germany for several time periods. We align our findings with respect to major political eras in these … the United Kingdom, and for Germany, the last year before German re-unification (1989), the beginning of H. Kohl's last …

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On the redistributive effects of Germany's feed-in tariff

Grösche, Peter; Schröder, Carsten - 2011

inequality measures indicate that Germany's feed-in tariff is mildly regressive. …

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Nothing left to lose? Poverty and social exclusion in comparison. Empirical evidence on Germany

Böhnke, Petra - 2001

The assumption that today.s society is polarised, is a very popular one in the current public and scientific debate. Access to the labour market is referred to as the main characteristic, which decides whether someone is .inside. or .outside.. Lots of theoretical and conceptual efforts have been...

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Age, life-satisfaction, and relative income

FitzRoy, Felix; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Nolan, Michael - 2011

East Germany the reference income effects are insignificant for all age groups. …

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Income and Well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of...

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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - 2002

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...

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The dynamic structure of wages in Germany 1976 - 1984: A cohort analysis

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Hujer, Reinhard; MaCurdy, Thomas E.; … - 1995

Based on social security data, this paper analyzes wage trends for full employed males by estimating (censored) quantile regressions as functions of age, cohort, education, and year. We test whether a parsimonious specification separating life cycle effects from macroeconomic effects can...

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

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Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

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Subnational analyses using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data archive

Jesuit, David K. - 2008

This brief chapter introduces researchers to the possibilities for subnational research using the harmonized data sets made available via the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) (www.lisproject.org). We first offer a brief overview of the LIS and discuss specific challenges for subnational research...

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