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Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

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The Performance of German Water Utilities: A (Semi)-Parametric Analysis

Zschille, Michael; Walter, Matthias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Germany's water supply industry is characterized by a multitude of utilities and widely diverging prices, possibly resulting from structural differences beyond the control of firms' management, but also from inefficiencies. In this article we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier...

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Potential Gains from Mergers in Local Public Transport: An Efficiency Analysis Applied to Germany

Walter, Matthias; Cullmann, Astrid - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We analyze potential gains from hypothetical mergers in local public transport using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis with bias corrections by means of bootstrapping. Our sample consists of 41 public transport companies from Germany's most densely populated region, North...

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Income Thresholds and Income Classes

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Muliere, Pietro; Secchi, Piercesare - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

. Similarly, indices of social exclusion and sometimes indices of income inequality require detection of thresholds. The …

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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

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Target Shortfall Orderings and Indices

Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Muliere, Pietro - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

distributions by absolute target shortfall indices are explored. Well-known inequality indices like the absolute Gini index and the …

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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper explores the relationship between two well-established con-cepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the...

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