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Using the 2004 income survey of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office we consider the targeting of two types of unemployment-related benefits: a) unemployment insurance and re-training benefits and b) the unemloyment assistance (UA). The evidence suggests that unemployment-related benefits...
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Income inequality in China is severe; measured by the Gini-coefficient it amounted to 0.46 in 2011; wealth distribution is even worse with 0.61. These disparities led to a major shift in emphasis of politics in general and of the Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development by the...
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Deutschland ist ein Land, das kräftig von oben nach unten umverteilt, innerhalb von Haushalten, durch Steuern und Transfers sowie auch durch die Bereitstellung öffentlicher Güter: In kaum einem anderen Land ist die Differenz zwischen der Ungleichheit der Brutto- und Nettoeinkommen größer...
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In der öffentlichen Debatte herrscht die Einschätzung vor, dass die Ungleichheit der Einkommen und des Vermögens in Deutschland und in Europa in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen hat. Geht die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich wirklich weiter auseinander, oder ist die wachsende Ungleichheit ein...
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Befragungsdaten deuten auf einen mehrheitlichen Wunsch hin, der Staat solle die Einkommensunterschiede in Deutschland verringern. Besonders im vergangenen Jahrzehnt hat sich die subjektive Umverteilungspräferenz weiter erhöht. Der verstärkte Wunsch nach sozialem Ausgleich vollzog sich...
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Welfare states redistribute both between individuals reducing annual inequality and over the life-cycle insuring against income risks. But studies measuring redistribution often focus only on a one-year period. Using German SOEP data from 1984 to 2009, long-term inequality over a 20-year period...
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Many validation studies deal with item-nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this paper we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). GSOEP collects socio-economic information of private households in the...
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This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are...
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In this paper we study the determinants of people's attitudes toward income inequality and their consequences for redistributive policies. In the light of a recent literature in social choice theory, we argue that an individual's attitudes toward inequality depend upon the extent of autonomy...
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