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Inequality-minimization with a given public budget
König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2016
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513031
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Erhöht die Riester-Förderung die Sparneigung von Geringverdienern?
Schröder, Carsten; Keese, Matthias; Corneo, Giacomo - 2007
Die Riester-Förderung soll dazu beitragen, dass häufiger und mehr für die Altersvorsorge gespart wird. Der Einfluss der Riester-Förderung auf die Sparneigung von Haushalten mit niedrigem Einkommen ist dabei ein zentrales Kriterium zur ökonomischen Evaluation dieser Politik. Unsere...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296294
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Erhöht die Riester-Förderung die Sparneigung von Geringverdienern?
Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
In 2001 the German government started to promote the development of private pensions by means of special saving subsidies and tax incentives (Riester-scheme). That policy especially targets households with relatively low incomes. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, we scrutinize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299131
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The effect of saving subsidies on household saving : evidence from Germany
Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941676
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The effect of saving subsidies on household saving : evidence from Germany
Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions - the so-called Riester scheme. We apply matching and panel regression techniques to assess the impact of the Riester scheme on households' propensities to save in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952553
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Erhöht die Riester-Förderung die Sparneigung von Geringverdienern?
Corneo, Giacomo (contributor); Keese, Matthias (contributor) - 2007
In 2001 the German government started to promote the development of private pensions by means of special saving subsidies and tax incentives (Riester-scheme). That policy especially targets households with relatively low incomes. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, we scrutinize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003655012
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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010
Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699605
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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010
Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009262082
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm (contributor); Schröder, Carsten (contributor) - 2007
conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. -- income … distribution ; inequality ; inequality decomposition ; equivalence scale …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003655003
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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory implications for poverty measurement
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022
Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801875