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Ungleiche Mittelschichten: Über Unterschiede im Immobilienvermögen und im Erbe innerhalb der Mitte Deutschlands
Korom, Philipp - 2017
The middle class has for the first time in history acquired a significant proportion of private wealth. But is … (inherited) wealth rather equally distributed in the middle of German society, or are there noteworthy wealth gaps? To answer … rather through the ownership of other (income generating) real estate. The wealth perspective reveals above all a lower …
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On various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland
Deutsch, Joseph; Flückiger, Yves; Silber, Jacques - 2007
measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index … the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes …
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The quest for more and more education: Implications for social mobility
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2012
In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document very rapid educational upgrading in Britain over the last thirty years or so and show that this rise has featured faster increases in education acquisition by people from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282394
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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315571
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Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung: zu ungleich?
Bach, Stefan; Adam, Hermann; Niehues, Judith; … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 10, pp. 691-712
The distribution of income and wealth in Germany grew increasingly unequal until the beginning of the fi nancial crisis …. But inequality has not risen in either Germany or Switzerland since 2005. Nevertheless, Germans overestimate inequality …
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Spatio-temporal dynamics in Swiss regional unemployment
Schenker, Rolf; Straub, Martin - 2011
It is generally accepted that regional labor markets are characterized by strong interdependencies. However, only few studies include spatial elements to their estimations. Using the model framework proposed by Cliff and Ord (1973, 1981) and the estimation technique proposed by Kelejian and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277751
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country: Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316907
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Demographic change and public education spending : a conflict between young and old?
Grob, Ueli; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2005
Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261342
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Group simulation and income tax statistics: how big is the error?
Müller, Heiko; Sureth, Caren - 2007
Microsimulation based on income tax statistics may be useful in tax reform discussions. Unfortunately, access to appropriate data is still rather restricted and expensive for ad-hoc analyses, or individual data is often even not available at all. In this paper we take Germany and its data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298468