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This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a composite measure encompassing the many dimensions of well-being. It also illustrates how to implement...
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The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the effect of the crisis on the population shares, the...
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In dieser Studie werden Zeit, Wohlstand und Zufriedenheit mit einem interdependenten multidimensionalen (IMD) Polarisierungsansatz von Zeit und Einkommen und der Entwicklung über 20 Jahre in Deutschland analysiert. Mit dem neuen Ansatz zur multidimensionalen Polarisierungsintensität (2DGAP)...
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This study uses a comprehensive framework to quantify the welfare changes of rural and non-rural households in Mexico associated with the food price crisis of 2007. The total change in welfare is decomposed into five contributors. I find that income effects, i.e. changes through profits and...
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Die verfügbaren Einkommen der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland sind von 1991 bis 2014 real, also unter Berücksichtigung der Preisentwicklung, um zwölf Prozent gestiegen. Das zeigt die vorliegende Studie, die auf Daten der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) basiert. Die...
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Dieser Bericht geht der Frage nach, wie sich die Schichtung der Einkommen und die Erwerbsformen der Bevölkerung in Deutschland in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten entwickelt haben. Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre nahm die Ungleichheit der verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen in Deutschland tendenziell...
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This report examines how income groups and forms of employment in Germany have changed in the past two decades. Since the mid-1990s, inequality in disposable household income in Germany has generally increased. This trend was in effect until 2005. While fewer people had disposable incomes in the...
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Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual wellbeing. In our study we focus on a prominent part...
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Western countries' income tax systems exempt the return from investing in owner-occupied housing. Returns from other investments are instead taxed, thus distorting households’ portfolio choices, although it is argued that housing property taxation might act as a counterbalance. Based on data...
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Von 1991 bis 2016 sind die verfügbaren bedarfsgewichteten Einkommen der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland real im Durchschnitt um 18 Prozent gestiegen. Dieser Zuwachs fällt aber je nach Einkommensposition unterschiedlich aus. Im Ergebnis ist die Ungleichheit der verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen...
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