• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Redistribution and insurance in the German welfare state
  • Beteiligte: Bartels, Charlotte [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Berlin: DIW, 2011
  • Erschienen in: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung: SOEP papers on multidisciplinary panel data research ; 41900
  • Umfang: Online-Ressource (1, 33 S., 352 KB); graph. Darst
  • Sprache: Englisch
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  • Schlagwörter: Umverteilung ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Lebenseinkommen ; Einkommensverteilung ; Deutschland ; Graue Literatur
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  • Anmerkungen: Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat reader
  • Beschreibung: Welfare states redistribute both between individuals reducing annual inequality and over the life-cycle insuring against income risks. But studies measuring redistribution often focus only on a one-year period. Using German SOEP data from 1984 to 2009, long-term inequality over a 20-year period is computed and then decomposed into an inter- and intra-individual component. Results show that annual inequality is higher than long-term inequality, but redistribution is also larger annually. In the long-term, the German welfare state clearly gives priority to insurance over redistribution. This gets even more pronounced at later stages of the life-cycle through the payment of social security pensions.
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