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Income comparisons and non-cognitive skills
Budria, Santi; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2012
People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This …, extraversion. The heterogeneity on the importance of income comparisons needs to be taken into account when, for example …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286913
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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
This paper is the first to analyze intergenerational economic mobility based on sibling correlations in permanent earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows: the importance of family and community background in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601007
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Measuring Income in Household Panel Surveys for Germany: A Comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP
Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010
microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600908
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600917
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional well-being in Germany. Our analysis shows that more than half of the … children. Mobility between different affluence counts between 2002 and 2007 is rather low and existing changes are mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600937