Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

Eine verpflichtende Altersvorsorge soll der besonders bei den Solo-Selbstständigen vermuteten Altersarmutsgefährdung vorbeugen. Die empirische Analyse offenbart aber, dass sich das Armutsrisiko sowohl während der Erwerbsphase als auch im Alter nicht auf die Gruppe der Selbstständigen ohne...

Auf Basis europäischer Mikrodaten werden die Umverteilungswirkungen der Abgaben und Transfers in Deutschland und den anderen EU-Mitgliedstaaten berechnet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine deutlich überdurchschnittliche Einkommensumverteilung in Deutschland. Im unteren Einkommensbereich machen...

Die Bewertung von Einkommensungleichheit und die damit einhergehenden Umverteilungspräferenzen spielen eine entscheidende Rolle für die Gestaltung von Steuer- und Transfersystemen. Deutschland und die Schweiz haben zwar eine sehr ähnliche Einkommensverteilung. Es herrschen jedoch sehr...

The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the Member States of the European Union vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality (termed redistributive effect for the purpose of this paper) using EUROMOD, a tax-benefit...

The flat income tax has become increasingly popular recently, yet its implementation is limited to Eastern Europe. We analyse the distributional and efficiency effects of flat tax scenarios for Western European countries. Our simulations show that flat tax rates required to attain revenue...

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...

Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster growing trends. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely...

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system...