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To claim or not to claim : estimating non-take-up of social assistance in Germany and the role of measurement error

Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) inGermany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...

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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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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

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

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Eine exemplarische Anwendung der regionalisierten Preisniveau-Daten des BBSR auf die Einkommensverteilung für die Jahre 2005 bis 2008 : zugleich eine Dokumentation verschiedener Pr...

Goebel, Jan; Krause, Peter; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, … - 2010

Analyse der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland einbezogen. Im Ergebnis führt dies bei den verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen zu …

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Pollution exposure and infant health : evidence from Germany

Coneus, Katja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2010

years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …

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Extending the empirical basis for wealth inequality research using statistical matching of administrative and survey data

Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2011

. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this … picture of the level and the socio-economic structure of wealth in Germany. Above and beyond such within-country variation …

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Spite and cognitive skills in preschoolers

Bügelmayer, Elisabeth; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2011

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children's cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214...

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Familien in Deutschland : FiD; enhancing research on families in Germany

Schröder, Mathis; Siegers, Rainer; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2013

Deutschland (FiD)" was initiated. FiD is one of the "related studies" of the SOEP, i.e. a data collection effort closely related …

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Parental leave benefits and breastfeeding in Germany : effects of the 2007 reform

Kottwitz, Anita; Oppermann, Anja; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2014

this conflict. In 2007, Germany put into effect a new parental leave benefit (Elterngeld). The related reform increased the … duration in Germany. We draw on representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 2002 through …

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