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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Biewen, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

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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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Accounting for Poverty Differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in 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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Who Are the Chronic Poor?: Evidence on the Extent and the Composition of Chronic Poverty in Germany

Biewen, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional poverty in a given year is chronic. The characteristics that are most closely associated with long-term poverty are...

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Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are there Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?

Biewen, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest that even after controlling for observed and...

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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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Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years … about inequality differences. Multiply-imputed public use data provide an intermediate solution. …

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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

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