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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 - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079301
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Equivalence Scales Based on Revealed Preference Consumption Expenditure Microdata - The Case of West Germany
Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expenditure data shows a variety of interesting results with regard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079335
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The Impact of German Job Protection Legislation on Job Creation in Small Establishments - An Application of the Regression Discontinuity Design
Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 2005
One proposal frequently raised to increase flexibility of the German labour market is the liberalization of the job protection law. It applies to those establishments with more than a cut-off number of employees. The argument examined in this paper is that this step in legal regulation hinders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535605
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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 - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837119
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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.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
based on a revealed preference consumption approach for West Germany and the United States. We review several approaches and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621617
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Human capital investments in children –A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - In: electronic International Journal of Time Use Research 9 (2012) 1, pp. 120-143
countries: Finland, Germany, and the United States (as social democratic, conservative and liberal welfare regime). Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010682624
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Auswirkungen fiskalpolitischer Massnahmen der Bundesregierung der Jahre 1972 bis 1975 auf die Einkommensverteilung
Merz, Joachim - In: Umverteilung im Sozialstaat : empirische …, (pp. 277-314). 1978
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002484419
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Der Einfluss sozioökonomischer Grössen auf die individuelle private Nachfrage nach dauerhaften Konsumgütern : eine Anwendung der diskreten Entscheidungsmodelle LOGIT und TOBIT
Merz, Joachim - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … 103 (1983) 3, pp. 225-253
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002484431
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Freie Berufe im Mikrozensus
Kirsten, Dagmar; Merz, Joachim
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004782043