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Diskussionspapiere 532 / 2005
We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax returns data. We derive a measure of economic income from taxable gross income as reported in the tax returns. Thanks to complete sampling, we can deliver a very precise description of very high incomes, in terms of both distribution and composition by source. We also provide a measure ...
2005| Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
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Diskussionspapiere 514 / 2005
This paper constructs a heterogenous agent model of endogenous distribution and growth. When the labor leisure choice of agents is exogenous, the factor holding ratios of households converges to a mass point that is independent of the initial distribution of capital in the steady state. There is complete equality and every household's preferred tax rate equals the growth maximizing tax rate. There ...
2005| Chetan Ghate
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Diskussionspapiere 544 / 2005
A comparison of women's and men's economic relations in the former East and West Germany (in this paper henceforth referred to as East and West Germany) in the years following reunification in 1990 is used to exemplify the differential impact of varying opportunity structures on the extent of and change in women's relative contribution to family income. East Germany represents a special case among ...
2005| Heike Trappe, Annemette Sørensen
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Diskussionspapiere 540 / 2005
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and withingroup components as well as an "overlapping" index for the different sup-populations. We apply this method together with a jackknife ...
2005| Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel
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Externe Monographien
Bonn:
IZA,
2005,
32 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 1891)
| Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel
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Diskussionspapiere 482 / 2005
Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were due to the neglect of some important methodological issues misleading and led to the so-called 'Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox', i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i.e. growth was in contrast to what previous ...
2005| Michael Grimm, Isabel Günther
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Diskussionspapiere 503 / 2005
This paper surveys models of voting on redistribution. Under reasonable assumptions, the baseline model produces an equilibrium with the extent of redistributive taxation chosen by the median income earner; if the median is poorer than average, redistribution is from rich to poor. Increasing inequality increases redistribution. However, under different assumptions about the economic environment, redistribution ...
2005| Rainald Borck
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Drawing on panel data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we compare the economic performance of immigrants to Great Britain, West Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Austria to that of the respective indigenous population. The unit of analysis is the individual in the household ...
In:
Population Research and Policy Review
24 (2005), 2, S. 175-212
| Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick
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Weekly Report 5 / 2005
The years 1998 to 2003 were marked by a deterioration in the economic situation of the German population with an immigrant background as the share of immigrants living below the poverty line increased at an above average rate. The older and younger age groups in this segment of the population are particularly prone to poverty. The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey, which is carried out by the DIW ...
2005| Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In:
Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv
89 (2005), 1, S. 49-61
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka