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Declining tax progression and the German dual income tax : conference paper

Jenderny, Katharina - 2013 - Preliminary version

This paper analyzes the effect of the introduction of a final withholding tax on capital income on the progression of the German income tax. As previous literature shows, even with synthetic income taxation, tax progression was strongest in the middle of the income distribution, and decreased...

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal equivalence scales for West Germany based on subjective data on life satisfaction : paper presented at the fifth meeting of the Society for the Stu...

Faik, Jürgen - 2013

The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the "individual variant" for calculating subjective equivalence scales using "life...

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Proportional influence? : electoral rules and special-interest spending ; conference paper

Egger, Peter; Köthenbürger, Marko; Smart, Michael - 2014

Conventional wisdom has it that proportional representation leads to more coalition governments and so to greater government spending, especially in redistributive categories favoured by special-interest groups. In contrast, we show in a theoretical model that first-past-the-post systems of...

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Biased perceptions of income inequality and redistribution : conference paper

Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - 2014

hypothesis work quite well empirically: there exists a positive link between perceived inequality or perceived upward mobility … and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes though such a link does not exist when objective measures of … inequality and social mobility are used. These observations highlight that political preferences and choices might depend more on …

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Inequality and the marriage gap : conference paper

Siassi, Nawid - 2014

Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality …

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Housing inequality and how fiscal policy shapes it : evidence from Belgian real estate

Domènech-Arumì, Gerard; Gobbi, Paula E.; Magerman, Glenn - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022

We use detailed information on all real estate stock and transactions since 2006 to study housing inequality in Belgium … then estimate inequality in value or space at different levels of aggregation - from the federal to the local neighborhood … level. Overall inequality is relatively low (Gini of 0.25), but significant heterogeneity exists across and within …

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Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014 : Thema der Kerntagung: "Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik"

Verein für Socialpolitik - 2015

We discuss properties of alternatives or complements to GDP as a measure of welfare at business cycle frequencies. We argue that these figures are not useful to measure the welfare costs of business cycles. First, data is not available at an appropriate quality and frequency. Second, since the...

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Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2014 : Thema der Kerntagung: "Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik"

Verein für Socialpolitik - 2014

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Happiness and the persistence of income shocks : conference paper

Bayer, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2013 - This version: March 1, 2013

We reassess the empirical effects of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a two-step estimation procedure that allows applying instrumental variable regressions with ordinal observable data. As suggested by the theory of incomplete markets, we...

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The decline of relational goods in the production of well-being? : presented at the HEIR conference in Venice, Isola di San Servolo, June 11th to 13th 2009

Prinz, Aloys; Bünger, Björn - 2009

In this paper, we attempt to show why the importance of relational goods compared to conventional goods and status goods threatens to decline in contemporary societies. In our point of view, the development of the relative significance of these three types of goods is not a consequence of...

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