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country-specific institutions. The model is calibrated for the United States, Germany and China. Simulations suggest that a … 1980s can be explained by the interplay of rising (top-end) household income inequality and institutions. On the other hand …
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Germany has had a large and persistent current account surplus for the past almost two decades. We review different theoretical explanations of this phenomenon and conclude from the empirical litera-ture that Germany's external surplus reflects an imbalance that is a threat to macroeconomic...
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-Standard Theorie des Haushaltskonsums, die Relative Einkommenshypothese, zurück. Es wird argumentiert, dass steigende …, saving, and debt for the 1920s by applying a non-standard theory of consumption, the relative income hypothesis, to the …
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United States during the 1920s by applying a non-standard theory of consumption, the relative income hypothesis, to the …
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This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the income density function. Overall changes are related to changes in subgroup shares and changes in subgroup densities, where the latter are broken down further using elementary...
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imbalances. I argue that the imbalances are attributable to a set of policies and institutions embedded in the economy. Moreover …
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Als Deutschland dem Eurosystem beitrat, zeigte die Leistungsbilanz ein Defizit. Seit über einer Dekade jedoch hat die … diskutierten Ursachen wurde die Verbesserung der deutschen Leistungsbilanz von starken Veränderungen in der personellen und noch … deutlicher in der funktionalen Einkommensverteilung begleitet. In diesem Papier argumentieren wir, dass Veränderungen der …
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We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
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We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of an integrated data set of individual tax returns and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The unique feature of this integrated data set is that it encompasses the whole spectrum of...
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