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Identifying Laffer Bounds: A Sufficient-Statistics Approach with an Application to Germany

We derive a simple sufficient-statistics test for whether a nonlinear tax-transfer system is second-best Pareto efficient. If it is not, then it is beyond the top of the Laffer curve and there exists a tax cut that is self-financing. The test depends on the income distribution, extensive and intensive labor supply elasticities, and income effect parameters. A tax-transfer system is likely to be inefficient ...

Does Commuting Matter to Subjective Well-Being?

How and why commuting contributes to our well-being is of considerable importance for transportation policy and planning. This paper analyses the relation between commuting and subjective well-being by considering several cognitive (e.g., satisfaction with family life, leisure, income, work, health) and affective (e.g., happiness, anger, worry, sadness) components of subjective well-being. Fixed-effects ...

Long road to ruin? Essays examining the effects of commuting on health and well-being

Flexibility and spatial mobility of labour are central characteristics of modern societies which contribute not only to higher overall economic growth but also to a reduction of interregional employment disparities. For these reasons, there is the political will in many countries to expand labour market areas, resulting especially in an overall increase in commuting. The picture of the various, unintended ...

Forschung: Warum wir so wenig über Reiche wissen

Use of health services according to income before and after elimination of copayment in Germany and restriction of universal health coverage in Spain

In Germany copayment for medical consultation was eliminated in 2013, and in Spain universal health coverage was partly restricted in 2012. This study shows the relationship between income and the use of health services before and after these measures in each country.

Verwaltung und Entscheidung – Bestimmt das individuelle Einkommen die Machtverteilung in Paarbeziehungen?

In order to avoid the underestimation of social inequality in households and in the wider society, couples’ power structure and, more specially, the factors, which generate this power, are important to explore. According to the social exchange theory, the resource theory and the cooperative-bargaining-model, power is generated by individual resources – most notably the income. This study examines the ...

Who Has It and Who Gets It?: The Role of Gender, Resources, and Transitions for Power within Couples

Social inequality within intimate relationships is a central dimension of social inequalities in the wider society and is highly related to power imbalances. In couples, partners who have power are able to manipulate the distribution of gains and costs in the relationship. Furthermore, power manifests itself within partners interaction and, thus, is a dynamic process. Therefore, the power allocation ...

Flexible Arbeitszeiten: Eine Gerechtigkeitsfrage?

In den aktuellen arbeitspolitischen Debatten werden von verschiedenen Akteuren flexible Arbeitszeiten gefordert: Wer aber nutzt flexible Arbeitszeiten? Welche Konsequenzen hat die Nutzung flexibler Arbeitszeiten? Und welche Rolle spielen Betriebe dabei? Die Klärung dieser Fragen ist für die Gestaltung einer Arbeitszeitpolitik notwendig, die allen Beschäftigtengruppen im gleichen Maße zugutekommt und ...

When My Money Becomes Our Money: Changes in Couples’ Money Management

Conservative welfare state policies as in Germany often presume that money is a common resource within couples and, therefore, pooled. Research, however, indicates that money is increasingly managed separately or partly separately. This trend is either explained by the diversification of forms of relationships or interpreted as a general decline of the joint pooling of money. Contributing to this debate, ...

Is maternal labor market re-entry after childbirth facilitated by mothers’ and partners’ flextime?

How do national-level work–life balance policies shape the role of flextime in maternal labor market re-entry after childbirth? It is well known that such policies influence the adoption, provision, and support of flexible work arrangements by organizations, but whether they shape the relevance of these arrangements for workers has been neglected in past research. This article analyzes whether mothers’ ...