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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682910
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Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527282
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Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Wunder, Christoph; Wiencierz, Andrea; Schwarze, Johannes; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068814
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Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique
Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694064
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …
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