Income inequality and poverty risks receive a lot of attention in public debates and current research. To make income comparable across different types of households, applying the "(modified) OECD scale" – an equivalence scale with fixed weights for each household type – has become a...

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis- a-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one's living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We...

Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric model is estimated, observations are selected in such a way that the resulting subset of data can be assumed to be sufficiently homogeneous with respect to the specific research...

Maßnahmen der Familienpolitik verteilen sich über unterschiedliche Rechtsgebiete, insbesondere das Steuer-, Sozial- und Unterhaltsrecht. Das historisch gewachsene Gefüge dieser Maßnahmen weist zahlreiche Schnittstellen zwischen Einzelregelungen auf, die nur selten bewusst gestaltet sind,...

Das Wohlergehen von Kindern wird als relevante Zielgröße familienpolitischen Handelns betrachtet. Aus entwicklungsbezogenen Individualdaten im Datensatz des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der Erweiterungsstudie "Familien in Deutschland" (FiD) werden mittels theoriegestützter...

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales in fact are income dependent. This paper explores the consistency of results derived from income independent and income...

Im Rahmen der vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) und vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF) in Auftrag gegebenen Gesamtevaluation von zentralen ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen wurden in der vorliegenden Studie die Auswirkungen öffentlich...

Abstract: Empirically analyzing household behavior usually relies on informal data preprocessing. That is, before an econometric model is estimated, observations are selected in such a way that the resulting subset of data is sufficiently homogeneous to be of interest for the specific research...

Measures of family policy are located in different branches of the law, mainly in tax law, social law and civil law governing alimony. In Germany, the bundle of relevant rules has evolved historically. There are thus numerous linkages between its single elements which are shaped deliberately...