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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272712
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What's the monetary value of distributive justice?
Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina M. - 2006
This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. A formula is derived that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal data. Using this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272738
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What´s the monetary value of distributive justice
Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina M. - 2007
This paper proposes a model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice, defined as distribution according to desert. We derive a formula that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from fiscal data and the estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299119
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Lifetime earnings inequality in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the intra-generational distribution of lifetime earnings of male workers has a Gini coefficient around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287243
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Democratic redistribution and rule of the majority
Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - 2015
Does redistribution in democracies cater to the will of the majority? We propose a direct empirical strategy based on … the median voter's preferred amount of redistribution and the probability to serve the median voter increases with the … redistribution. Political absenteeism of the poor cannot explain such outcomes. Rather, they can be explained by the electoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350837