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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193660
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
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The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383825
We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886897
, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use …
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, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the concentration of wealth among the group of top wealth holders, defined as those … with wealth in excess of a high cut off. The paper begins by considering the definition of this cut off, analogous to the …, wealth tax data, and investment income tax data. It starts off from the world’s billionaires in 2006, but is particularly …
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a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286273