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The Ethics of Tax Evasion : A Comparative Study of Germany and the United States
McGee, Robert W.; Nickerson, Inge; Fees, Werner - 2006
This paper examines the issue of the ethics of tax evasion. It begins with a review of the literature and proceeds to … a series of surveys taken of various populations in Germany and the United States. Gender and age differences are also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055340
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Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries
Almås, Ingvild - 2009
Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159881
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How we fall apart : similarities of human aging in 10 European countries
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health deficit index. Results from log-linear regressions suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590290
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Identifying age penalty in women's wages : new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Staveren, Irene van - 2018
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our … results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011792423
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Identifying age penalty in women's wages : new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Staveren, Irene van - 2018
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our … results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795553
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Identifying age penalty in women's wages : new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Staveren, Irene van - 2017
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our … results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808598
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The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe : An Empirical Study of Opinion in the USA, Brazil, Germany and China
Hernandez, Teresa - 2014
demographic variables, including gender, age, ethnicity, religion, education, occupation, social class and confidence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055212
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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002
We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437003
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Ageing and mobility in Germany : are women taking the fast lane?
Kalinowska, Dominika; Kunert, Uwe - 2009
mobility patterns than men. Recent longitudinal studies of gender specific travel demand reveal converging mobility of males … and females. Moreover, in some countries results show convergence between cohort and gender specific travel demand: women … ever before. Do these developments hold also for Germany? Based on socio-economic and demographic analysis of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844263
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Age, occupations, and opportunities for older workers in Germany
Henseke, Golo; Tivig, Thusnelda - 2008
-employment of workers aged 50 and above, though detailed impact differs by gender. And secondly, working conditions and arrangements … ; employment ; re-employment ; gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886239