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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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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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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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The sensitivity of distributional measures to the reference period of income

Schröder, Carsten - 2012

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

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The short-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform

Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - 2017

This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and actual working hours, and monthly earnings. Our descriptive...

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The short-term distributional effects of the german minimum wage reform

Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - 2017

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The German spatial poverty divide : poorly endowed or bad luck?

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2009

-Blinder decomposition to quantify the separate contribution of regional differences in households' characteristics to the probability of … being poor. -- Poverty ; decomposition ; expenditure patterns ; necessities ; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition ; bootstrap …

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Welfare-Dependent Household Economies of Scale: Further Evidence

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2005

We use a survey method designed to capture whether the consumption sharing ability of households varies systematically at different levels of well being. Evidence from Cyprus reconfirms our previous results from other countries, that household consumption economies of scale increase as the...

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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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Confronting the Robinson Crusoe paradigm with household-size heterogeneity

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2008

Modern macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind economic actions by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. This analytical approach requires that incentives of the poor and the rich are strictly aligned. In empirical analysis a...

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