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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296295
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324347
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448511
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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010
Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278011
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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010
Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285745
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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010
Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009262082
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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
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
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The Joint Distribution of Net Worth and Pension Wealth in Germany
Boenke, Timm - 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/10012987251
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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010
Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699605