In:
Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe
Heidelberg [u.a.] : Physica-Verl.
S. 235-253
| Johannes Schwarze
In:
Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe
Heidelberg [u.a.] : Physica-Verl.
S. 69-89
| Erik J. S. Plug, Peter Krause, Bernard M. S. Van Praag, Gert G. Wagner
This paper, using six waves of data (1984-89) from the United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), compares economic well-being using single year income, multi-year income, and wealth as measures. We find inequality to be greater in the United States than in Germany regardless of the measure used. However, the relative degree of inequality varies ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
43 (1997), 2, S. 153-171
| Richard V. Burkhauser, Joachim R. Frick, Johannes Schwarze
Bochum:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
1997,
14 Bl.
(Diskussionspapiere aus der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft ; 97-07)
| Gert G. Wagner, Felix Büchel, John P. Haisken-DeNew, C. Katharina Spieß
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 1 / 1997
This paper analyzes how inequality in Before and After Government income has changed in Germany since reunification using the 1990 through 1992 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. A Theil decomposable inequality index is used to measure inequality in Germany and in its eastern and western states. Massive public transfers from west to east have narrowed the east-west income gap, substantially ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
42 (1996), 1, S. 1-11
| Johannes Schwarze