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The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
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The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324245
Die 1990 eingeführte Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion der BRD mit der DDR und schließlich die deutsche Wiedervereinigung war und ist für jede Statistik, die versucht die Lebensverhältnisse in Ost und West zu vergleichen, eine große Herausforderung. In seinem einleitenden Teil dokumentiert...
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consideration of all components of private investment income for the purpose of welfare analysis, be they of a monetary or non …, regions, welfare regimes; (3) across the individual life course, thus analyzing the impact of investment income on …
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This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland...
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This article deals with income advantages derived from owner-occupied housing and their impact on the personal income distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find...
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This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study...
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least one missing income component of their pre-tax post-transfer income, 9 % of the overall income mass is imputed. However …
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. in The Great Recession and the distribution of household income, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013) and more important … been hit hardest-as measured by a decline in GDP-by the Great Recession in 2008/2009. The underlying data source comes from … in Germany. Our main finding is that we do not find any significant distributional changes during the Great Recession …
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Overall monetary redistribution via the tax and transfer system leads to net incomes being much more evenly distributed …
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