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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 … potential taxpayers, tax progression was not further observable. In 2009, the tax schedule changed and capital income was …

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A new semiparamtetric approach to analysing conditional income distributions : conference paper

Sohn, Alexander; Klein, Nadja; Kneib, Thomas - 2014 - Working version 0.1

In this paper we explore the possibility of the application of GAMLSS regression techniques for the analysis of income distributions in Germany following the reunification. We find that conditional income distributions can generally be modelled using the three parameter Dagum distribution and...

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Gender differences in German wage mobility : conference paper

Aretz, Bodo - 2013

This paper analyzes the evolution of wage inequality and wage mobility separately for men and women in West and East Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased...

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Income inequality in general equilibrium

Bernon, Bastien; Konings, Jozef; Magerman, Glenn - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022

We develop a quantitative framework in which income inequality arises endogenously in response to productivity shocks. The framework accommodates sectoral inputoutput linkages, arbitrary elasticities of factors and intermediates, and heterogeneous workers that endogenously choose to supply their...

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No longer top of the class : professorial salaries in the 20th century ; conference paper

Sohn, Alexander - 2013

Using individual income data from university archives, we look at the development of professorial salaries over a time-span covering the Kaiserreich, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich as well as the Federal Republic of Germany. We find that relative salaries have fallen dramatically, both...

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Capital in Classical Antiquity

Koedijk, Max (ed.); Morley, Neville (ed.) - Capital in Classical Antiquity <Veranstaltung> <2018, … - 2022

Chapter 1. Introduction: Capital and Classical Antiquity (Max Koedijk and Neville Morley) -- Chapter 2. Problems in the … Long-Term Accumulation of Commercial and Financial Capital in Ancient Greece (Michael Leese) -- Chapter 3. Inequality in … the Peloponnesian War (Manu Dal Bo Manu Dal Borgo) -- Chapter 4. Framing Capital: Xenophon’s Economic Model and Social …

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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 Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) Bari (Italy), 22th - 24th July 2013

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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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being : conference paper

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - This version: February 18, 2013

Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...

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Income distribution and current account imbalances : conference paper

Belabed, Christian A.; Theobald, Thomas - 2014

We develop a three-country, stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model to study the effects of changes in both personal and functional income distribution on national current account balances. Each country has a household sector and a non-household (corporate) sector. The household sector is...

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Biased perceptions of income inequality and redistribution : conference paper

Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - 2014

When based on perceived rather than on objective income distributions, the Meltzer-Richards hypothesis and the POUM hypothesis work quite well empirically: there exists a positive link between perceived inequality or perceived upward mobility and the extent of redistribution in democratic...

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