. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare … satisfaction within couples are generally small. However, satisfaction is not a direct measure of welfare. Forthis reason …

's mean welfare level, does not exist, on principle, in the decomposition approach. Present author's own calculations reveal …'s and overall welfare levels, at a plausible degree of economies of scale (i. e., Buhmann et al.'s · > 0.65) the poverty …

individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a …-estimated the welfare gains immediately following reunification. The prediction error was largest for the young, the poorly educated …

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare … allowance yields positive static welfare effects amounting to approximately 1.8 per cent of income tax revenue but increases … problematic distributional impact, flat tax reforms are unlikely to spill over to the welfare states of Western Europe. …

alternative that leads to positive labour supply and significantly positive welfare effects. Both labour supply and static welfare … reforms to invade the grown-up welfare states of "Old Europe". …

countercyclical spending rule following the idea of the debt brake is well suited both to steer the economy and in terms of welfare …

recently and thus cannot explain the rising welfare receipt. Following theoretical predictions, the probability that a rational …