In westlichen Industrienationen besteht heute im allgemeinen ein Konsens darüber, dass die Betreuung in Kindertageseinrichtungen öffentlich subventioniert werden sollte. Weniger Klarheit besteht jedoch über die verteilungspolitischen Effekte der öffentlichen Förderung von Kinderbetreuung. Eine solche Unkenntnis über die Verteilungseffekte der öffentlichen Förderung von Kinderbetreuung kann jedoch dazu ...
2000| Michaela Kreyenfeld, C. Katharina Spieß, Gert G. Wagner
This project employs the theory of equality of opportunity, described in Roemer's book (Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998), to compute the extent to which tax-and-transfer regimes in ten countries equalize opportunities among citizens for income acquisition. Roughly speaking, equality of opportunity for incomes has been achieved in a country when it is the case that the distributions ...
2000| John E. Roemer, Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, Johan Fritzell, Stephen P. Jenkins, Ive Marx, Marianne Page, Evert Pommer, Javier Ruiz-Castillo, Maria Jesus San Segundo, Torben Tranaes, Gert G.Wagner, Ignacio Zubiri
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 2 / 1999
The German economy is not only affected by unification of Germany but by a significant influx of immigrants from abroad and huge migration from East to West Germany around the date of unification. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) allows one to disentangle those effects by decomposition of the Theil I(0)-Index of inequality. In addition, the paper offers insights into the transition ...
In:
European Economic Review
43 (1999), 4-6, S. 867-878
| Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze, Gert G. Wagner
In:
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Immigrant Incorporation. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States
Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : JAI Press
S. 159-174
| Wolfgang Voges, Joachim R. Frick, Felix Büchel
We use data from the East German sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine the incomes of privileged individuals during the transition from socialism to capitalism. The standard measure of elite status is party membership, but this measure is likely to be inaccurate. Instead we identify the upperclass by the ownership of a telephone before the fall of the Berlin Wall. We find that ...
In:
Journal of Comparative Economics
26 (1998), 2, S. 211-225
| Edward J. Bird, Joachim R. Frick, Gert G. Wagner
In:
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Immigrant Incorporation. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States
Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : JAI Press
S. 35-46
| Gert G. Wagner, Felix Büchel, John P. Haisken-DeNew, C. Katharina Spiess