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This paper reviews changing income distributions in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, treating the three countries as leading economic performers in ‘the three worlds of welfare capitalism.’ Previous analyses have shown that earnings dispersion is increasing. The potential impact of government through the tax and transfer system has been largely ignored. It is shown that in the United ...
In:
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
70 (2001), 1, 115-122
| Bruce Headey, Stephen Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels
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The 1980s and 1990s have been decades of quite good economic growth in North America and much of Western Europe. But how have the fruits of growth been shared? This paper reviews changing income distributions in the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands. These three countries may be taken as exemplars and leading economic performers in “the three worlds of welfare capitalism” (Esping-Andersen, 1990). The ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
65 (2004), 2, 125-144
| Bruce Headey, Stephen Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Carla Janssen
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Researchers in the US have consistently reported substantial—not just statistically significant—links between religious belief and practice, and improved health and longevity. In this paper we report evidence for Germany, using data from the long-running, nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP 1984). The SOEP dataset includes multiple measures of health, plus many ‘controls’ which ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
119 (2014), 3, 1335-1361
| Bruce Headey, Gerhard Hoehne, Gert G. Wagner
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This is the first of what, it is hoped, will become an annual series of Wave Reports on the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey Study (SOEP). SOEP has now been running for a quarter of century (1984-2008). Twenty-five waves of data have been collected. So some respondents, about 2,500 middle aged and older people, have kindly agreed to be interviewed twenty-five times. The central theme of SOEP is ‘subjective ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2008,
| Bruce Headey, Elke Holst
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Frankfurt/M. - Mannheim:
1988,
(Sfb 3-Arbeitspapier Nr. 260)
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause
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In:
Bruce Bradbury ,
Contemporary Issues in Income Distribution Research. SPRC Reports and Proceedings No. 115
Melbourne: University of New South Wales
133-176
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause
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Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
1995,
(Diskussionspapier Nr. 126)
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause
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In:
Australian Social Monitor
2 (1999), 2, 37-41
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause
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Social scientists and media commentators have expressed concern that Western countries are becoming two-thirds societies in which two-thirds enjoy the benefits of affluence, while one-third are locked into poverty or near-poverty. This paper, based on economic panel data, tests the two-thirds society hypothesis in the case of (West) Germany 1984-89. The main finding is that poverty (defined as receiving ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
1991,
(Diskussionspapier Nr. 38)
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, Roland Habich
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In:
Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
63 (1994), 1/2, 42-47
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, Roland Habich