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In:
Terry Ward, Orsolya Lelkes, Holly Sutherland, István György Tóth ,
European Inequalities - Social Inclusion and Income Distribution in the European Union
Budapest: Tàrki
153-175
| Alari Paulus, Francesco Figari, Holly Sutherland
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Recent success of the flat income tax in Eastern Europe raises questions about whether there is scope for such a policy reform in Western Europe as well. We address this by estimating the potential distributional impact of various flat taxes for selected Western European countries. Our simulations show that in specific circumstances a revenue neutral flat tax reform can increase income equality and ...
In:
Journal of Policy Modeling
31 (2009), 5, 620-636
| Alari Paulus, Andreas Peichl
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The flat tax idea is becoming increasingly popular, especially in transition countries in Eastern Europe. The introduction of a flat tax is supposed to have several advantages. However, flat taxes can have a serious drawback in terms of their impact on the distribution of tax burdens. The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of flat tax reforms that do not change the inequality of the income ...
Buenos Aires:
2009,
| Alari Paulus, Andreas Peichl
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International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of disposable income in another. We estimate the size and incidence of in kind or "non cash" benefits from ...
In:
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
29 (2009), 2, 243-266
| Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland, Panos Tsakloglou
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Tilburg:
2007,
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos
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This paper uses panel data from the UK (BHPS) and Germany (GSOEP) to investigate the wage effect of entering the labour market with a temporary job. Further than the previous literature that studied the effect of the contract type on wage dynamics in the explained part of a wage regression, we also investigate the effect of the starting contract on the variance of unobserved individual effects and ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 228)
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent and the human-capital determinants of low-wage mobility for labour market entrants in the UK and Germany. Design/methodology/approach – Using panel data for the UK (BHPS) and Germany (GSOEP), a competing-risks duration model is applied that allows the study of transitions from low pay to competing destination states: higher pay, self-employment, ...
In:
International Journal of Manpower
31 (2010), 5, 908-927
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Didier Fouarge
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 7th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2006), ed. by Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Grabka, Markus M. and Kroh, Martin)
127 (2007), 1, 47-58
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Didier Fouarge, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Jeroen K. Vermunt
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In this paper, we use panel data from the UK and Germany to investigate the effect of employer changes and in-firm job changes on year-to-year wage mobility of male full-time workers. Following segmentation theories and the job search theory, we study whether this effect differs for the low- and high-wage workers. As wage growth is endogenous to the decision of changing jobs, a two-stage Heckman selection ...
In:
European Societies
16 (2014), 2, 299-319
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Didier Fouarge, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Jeroen K. Vermunt
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The paper investigates cross-country differences in wage mobility in Europe using the European Community Household Panel. We examine the impact of specific wage-setting institutions, such as the collective bargaining and the trade union density, the employment protection regulation and the welfare state regime on wage mobility. We apply a log-linear approach that is very much similar to a restricted ...
In:
Quality & Quantity
44 (2005), 1, 115-129
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Jeroen K. Vermunt