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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith - 2011
by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122677
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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310036
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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269249
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2011
by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601037
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Reform Options for the Estate Tax System : Targeting Unearned Income, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, inheritances tend to exacerbate existing economic disparities and may be the most important barrier to intergenerational economic mobility. These tendencies are most pronounced at the top of the income distribution. While inherited income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045314
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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436268
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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002
across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437003
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A tale of two countries: a comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011
This paper compares the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Western Germany using a … the rise in trend unemployment in Germany in the 1980s or for a possible rise in trend unemployment in the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232258
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Inequality and the State : Comparing U.S. And German Preferences
Corneo, Giacomo - 2021
Survey data from the United States, West Germany and East Germany are analyzed to compare individual attitudes towards … political redistribution in each country. In West Germany the homo oeconomicus effect, the social rivalry effect and the public … effect disappears. In East Germany both the second and the third effect disappear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321156
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Optimal taxation, inequality and top incomes
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to the issue of the taxation of top incomes. Our results suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374096