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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes …
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-28, pp. 1-43
rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality …
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Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany
Lersch, Philipp M.; Grabka, Markus M.; Rüß, Kilian; … - In: Journal of European Social Policy 31 (2021) 5, pp. 565-579
, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002–17) to examine the level of and inequality in wealth for children … from single-parent families using recentred influence function regression and decomposition analysis. We replicate earlier …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …
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Non-market time and household well-being
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2005
A distinguishing feature among households is whether adult members work or not, since the employment status affects a household's available time for home activities. Using a survey method in two countries, Belgium and Germany, we provide household incomes that retain the level of well-being...
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On the redistributive effects of Germany's feed-in tariff
Grösche, Peter; Schröder, Carsten - 2011
facilities. The redistributive effects of the feed-in tariff are evaluated by means of various inequality indices. All the … inequality measures indicate that Germany's feed-in tariff is mildly regressive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306207
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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016
Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509132
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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017
We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622210
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of our results. -- Inequality ; equivalence scale ; equivalent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009268979
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012
sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of the results. -- Inequality ; equivalence scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009411930
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A Head-To-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States
Boenke, Timm - 2017
We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth – defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960058