TY  - THES
A1  - Victor, Vincent
T1  - The Role of Bargaining Power
T1  - Die Rolle der Verhandlungsmacht
BT  - How Unions Affect Income Distribution
BT  - Der Einfluss der Gewerkschaften auf die Einkommensverteilung
T2  - Potsdam Economic Papers
N2  - Neoclassical theory omits the role of bargaining power in the determination of wages. As a result, the importance of changes in the bargaining position for the development of income shares in the last decades is underestimated. This paper presents a theoretical argument why collective bargaining power is a main determinant of workers’ share of income and how its decline contributed to the severe changes in the distribution of income since the 1980s. In order to confirm this hypothesis, a panel data regression analysis is performed that suggests that unions significantly influence the distribution of income in developed countries.
N2  - Die Verhandlungsmacht der beteiligten Akteure bei der Lohnfindung spielt in der neoklassischen Theorie nur eine untergeordnete Rolle. Dementsprechend wird auch ihre Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Einkommensverteilung unterschätzt. Diese Arbeit präsentiert eine theoretische Argumentation, warum die kollektive Verhandlungsmacht der Arbeitnehmer einer der wichtigsten Bestimmungsfaktoren der Einkommensverteilung ist und wie der Rückgang eben dieser zu den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Einkommensverteilung seit den 1980ern beigetragen hat. Die Hypothese wird durch eine Panelregression gestützt, die auf einen signifikanten Einfluss von Gewerkschaften und Tarifverhandlungen auf die Einkommensverteilung in Industrieländern in den letzten Jahrzehnten hindeutet.
T3  - Potsdam Economic Papers - 6 
KW  - income distribution
KW  - bargaining power
KW  - wages
KW  - collective bargaining
KW  - unions
KW  - macroeconomics
KW  - Einkommensverteilung
KW  - Verhandlungsmacht
KW  - Löhne
KW  - Tarifverhandlungen
KW  - Gewerkschaften
KW  - Makröökonomie
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-420689
SN  - 978-3-86956-449-4
SN  - 2197-8069
SN  - 2197-8077
IS  - 6
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Gabidsaschwili, B.
A1  - Gelaschwili, Simon
T1  - Armut in Georgien
N2  - Poverty is currently wide spread in Georgia. This paper is dedicated to an analysis of the causes, the extent and the intensity of poverty in Georgia. With a strong focus on the period after Shevardnadze’s presidency, the paper shows how poverty has grown in the past 15 years. In spite of a rising per capita income, the variance within the distribution of income is also increasing. The widening gap between high and low incomes represents a danger for the Georgian society and is associated with high unemployment rates, a lack of education for entire societal strata and rising criminality. In addition, high inflation rates affect mainly low income groups. Apparently, the Rose Revolution of 2003 did not lead to an attenuation of poverty but rather intensified it.
T3  - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge / Special series G, Arbeitspapiere des Deutsch-Georgischen Arbeitskreises für Finanz- und Sozialpolitik - G-07 
KW  - poverty in Georgia
KW  - living standards
KW  - income distribution
KW  - Gini-coefficient
KW  - prices
KW  - inflation
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-18779
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Jastrzembski, André
T1  - Einkommensteuerschätzung in Georgien
N2  - Tax estimation is a fundamental prerequisite for a sustainable fiscal policy. This paper uses the Georgian Household Survey and s simple microsimulation model in order to describe the household incomes in Georgia for the year 2005, their structure and regional distribution within eleven historical regions. Based on a thorough analysis of the existing taxable incomes and following the documentation of the applied model both a tax allowance and three percent raise of the income tax are estimated with respect to tax revenue and distributional effects. The paper comes to the conclusion that the poor income situation of most Georgian households can be mitigated by a tax allowance but is very difficult to be financed because of expected revenue losses. In spite of some progressive distributional effects of an increase of the tax burden, most households will find a very hard to cope with additional tax liabilities.
T3  - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge / Special series G, Arbeitspapiere des Deutsch-Georgischen Arbeitskreises für Finanz- und Sozialpolitik - G-05 
KW  - tax estimation
KW  - microsimulation
KW  - income distribution
KW  - personal income tax
KW  - fiscal policy
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-18755
ER  -