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Punching up or punching down? : how stereotyping the rich and the poor impacts redistributive preferences in Germany
Diermeier, Matthias; Fischer, Madeleine L.; Niehues, Judith - 2023
Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as 'deserving' or 'undeserving'. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner. First, it provides a holistic view on the beneficiaries and...
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601067
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Multidimensional well-being at the top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282585
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Poverty in Germany : impact of corona pandemic not yet assessable
Niehues, Judith - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 102 (2022) 3, pp. 181-184
While the risk of poverty increased quite markedly around the turn of the millennium, a further but flatter increase … can be subsequently observed. The development was also accompanied by a stronger increase in the at-risk-of-poverty … which the corona pandemic influenced poverty cannot yet be assessed, as the results published so far are not comparable with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175547
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Multidimensional well-being at the top : evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 34 (2013) 3, pp. 355-371
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Integrierte Einkommens- und Vermögensbetrachtung
Niehues, Judith; Schröder, Christoph - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 39 (2012) 1, pp. 89-104
Verteilungs- und Armutsanalysen berücksichtigen häufig nicht die Vermögenswerte. Haushaltsbefragungen zeigen, dass jedem Erwachsenen in Deutschland im Durchschnitt mehr als 80.000 Euro in Form von Geld- oder Sachvermögen zur Verfügung stehen. Zwar sind die Vermögenswerte positiv mit dem...
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Poverty in Germany: Impact of corona pandemic not yet assessable
Niehues, Judith - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 3, pp. 181-184
While the risk of poverty increased quite markedly around the turn of the millennium, a further but flatter increase … can be subsequently observed. The development was also accompanied by a stronger increase in the at-risk-of-poverty … which the corona pandemic influenced poverty cannot yet be assessed, as the results published so far are not comparable with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013343050
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Ungleichheit unter der Lupe – neue politische Antworten auf ein bekanntes Thema
Niehues, Judith; Stockhausen, Maximilian; Peichl, Andreas; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 73 (2020) 02, pp. 03-26
Judith Niehues und Maximilian Stockhausen, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Köln, weisen darauf hin, dass in der Wahrnehmung der Bevölkerungsmehrheit die Ungleichheit in Einkommen und Vermögen seit Jahren steigt. Ein Abgleich mit den verfügbaren Daten zeige jedoch, dass die Daten weder ein...
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Gerechtigkeitspolitische Handlungsfelder in Deutschland : relevante Probleme angemessen angehen
Anger, Christina; Hüther, Michael; Klös, Hans-Peter; … - 2017
Zentrale verteilungspolitische Indikatoren in Deutschland haben sich seit dem Jahr 2005 wieder normalisiert oder sogar strukturell verbessert. Dennoch bleiben mindestens drei zentrale Herausforderungen: Erstens gelingt es nicht, die Langzeitarbeitslo-sigkeit stärker als bereits geschehen...
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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : efficient, but regressive?
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2013
Shifting taxes from labor income to consumption is regularly suggested as a measure to induce work incentives. We investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the income distribution in Germany, which is compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in...
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