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Relative income distribution in six European countries : market and disposable income
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...
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A comparison of earnings justice throughout Europe : widespread approval in Germany for income distribution according to need and equity
Adriaans, Jule; Eisnecker, Philipp; Liebig, Stefan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 44/45, pp. 397-404
and the rest of Europe based on recent data from the European Social Survey (ESS). The vast majority of European … considered too high in Germany than they are in the rest of Europe. Nearly half of Europeans believe their own gross earned … correlation is particularly strong in Germany. Respondents in Europe, and especially in Germany, generally consider it fair that …
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How Progressive is Germany? Comparing the Redistributive Effects of Tax Benefit Systems in Europe (Wie progressiv ist Deutschland? Das Steuer - und Transfersystem im europäischen V...
Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2008
When comparing tax benefit systems across Europe, Germany is usually regarded as a country with a high level of taxes …
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Reduction of income inequality and subjective well-being in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2014
people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of inequality has a positive effect on well … individuals. The estimations are different in Eastern and Western Europe: In post-communist countries people appear to be harder …
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Reduction of income inequality and subjective well-being in Europe
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2014
-being. Their results provide evidence that people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of …-government inequality seems to have no significant effect in Western Europe, its impact is negative and highly significant in Eastern Europe. …
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Why a labour market boom does not necessarily bring down inequality: putting together Germany's inequality puzzle
Biewen, Martin; Sturm, Miriam - 2021
After an economically tough start into the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after 2005 only stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of inequality despite a booming labour market and drastically falling unemployment rates constituted a...
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Why a labour market boom does not necessarily bring down inequality: putting together Germany's inequality puzzle
Biewen, Martin; Sturm, Miriam - 2021
After an economically tough start into the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after 2005 only stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of inequality despite a booming labour market and drastically falling unemployment rates constituted a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517874
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Does size matter? : the impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...
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Mobility of top incomes in Germany
Jenderny, Katharina - 2013
Mobility of top incomes matters for both the openness of the income elite and the share of total income that this group receives. It is thus an important complement information to the growing snapshot literature on top income concentration. I use microlevel panel data of German income tax files...
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Top incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
of the millennium, income concentration in Germany has been on the rise and is today among the highest in Europe …
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