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At least half of all employees in Germany described their wages in all three survey years under consideration here - 2005, 2007, and 2009 - as just. Still, major changes occurred over this period in how people perceived their earnings. Data from the Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) Study show that...
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Seit einiger Zeit mehren sich die Stimmen, die für Deutschland eine "soziale Schieflage" konstatieren und im Namen sozialer Gerechtigkeit Korrekturen fordern. So haben die Reallöhne in den vergangenen Jahren stagniert, teilweise sind sie sogar zurückgegangen. Zugleich kann eine Zunahme von...
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Gut die Hälfte der Beschäftigten in Deutschland bewertet ihr Einkommen zu allen hier betrachteten Befragungszeitpunkten - 2005, 2007 und 2009 - als gerechte Entlohnung. Bei der Beurteilung des eigenen Einkommens lassen sich aber auch deutliche Veränderungen beobachten. Die Daten des...
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the rule of law and thereby the welfare of people, and the indomitable tendency of rising and unsustainable inequality in …
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beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …
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On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …
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This paper examines the relationship between financial sector transformation and income inequality. We construct an …
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reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient …
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Economists use various metrics for measuring income inequality. Here, the most commonly used measures—the Lorenz curve … dimensions of economic inequality is a key first step toward choosing the right policies to address it. …
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of 'inclusive growth' must overcome the challenges prompted by reduced inequalities between countries, growing inequality …
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