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Redistributive Impacts of Government and Private Household Activities. Trends in Equivalized Household Net Incomes and Intra-household Earnings in Germany, 1985-2005
Krause, Peter - In: Intervention. European Journal of Economics and … 05 (2008) 1, pp. 129-153
The paper examines the development of incomes in Germany at different welfare levels, together with current trends in … information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s. Results show that increased inequality is mainly in pre-governmental income and … increasing labor market inequality is further intensified by decreasing redistributive activities of private households. Intra …
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Estimation and analysis of food demand patterns in vietnam
Vu, Linh H. - In: Economies 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17
-price elasticities. Rice has mean expenditure elasticity of 0.36 and mean own-price elasticity of -0.80. Using the estimated elasticities …, the study finds that when rice prices increase by 20 percent, average household welfare rises by 1.3 percent, yet it is …
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Culture is a luxury in Latin America
Acerenza, Santiago; Gandelman, Nestor - In: Estudios de Economía 46 (2019) 1, pp. 125-148
In this paper we use micro-data from income and expenditure surveys for seven Latin American countries. We estimate Engel equations and present stylized facts regarding cultural spending. Culture activities are a key indicator of a society development and therefore cultural spending decisions...
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Inequality and poverty when effort matters
Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19
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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Vermögen in Deutschland wesentlich ungleicher verteilt als Einkommen
Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 45, pp. 665-672
Das private Vermögen in Deutschland ist vor dem Hintergrund der Erbschaftsteuerreform und der zunehmenden Privatisierung der sozialen Vorsorge verstärkt in den Blickpunkt der wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Diskussion gerückt. Mit den Ergebnissen der Vermögenserhebung im Rahmen des...
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Shrinking share of middle-income group in Germany and the US
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan; Schröder, Carsten; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 18, pp. 199-210
According to calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, the proportion of middle-income group in Germany fell by six percentage points from 1991 to 2013, taking it to 54 percent. Germany is not the only country to have experienced such a downturn, however. Analyses of the...
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Schrumpfender Anteil an BezieherInnen mittlerer Einkommen in den USA und Deutschland
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan; Schröder, Carsten; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 18, pp. 391-402
Die Gruppe der Bezieher eines mittleren Einkommens ist in Deutschland von 1991 bis 2013 um sechs Prozentpunkte auf 54 Prozent zurückgegangen. Das zeigen Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Damit steht Deutschland nicht allein, denn vergleichbare Analysen für die USA...
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The low-wage sector in Germany is larger than previously assumed
Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 14, pp. 117-124
The total number of dependent employees in Germany has increased by more than four million since the financial crisis. Part of this growth took place in the low-wage sector. Analyses based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, which in 2017 for the first time include detailed information on...
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Der Niedriglohnsektor in Deutschland ist größer als bislang angenommen
Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 14, pp. 249-257
Die Zahl der abhängig Beschäftigten in Deutschland ist seit der Finanzkrise um mehr als vier Millionen gestiegen. Ein Teil dieses Beschäftigungsaufbaus fand im Niedriglohnsektor statt. Analysen auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, die erstmalig ausreichend Details über...
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The BIP Trilogy (bipolarization, inequality and polarization): One saga but three different stories
Deutsch, Joseph; Fusco, Alessio; Silber, Jacques - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-22, pp. 1-33
Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …
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