The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …-data-collection stage may interfere consid-erably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distri-bution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth …

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … using post-government income, but since 2001 no longer is when using pre-government income. These results remain stable when …

This paper deals with the question of selectivity of missing data on income questions in large panel surveys due to … the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP) when deriving annual income variables, complemented by purely cross … relevance given by imputed income as a percentage share of the total income mass: e.g. while 21 % of all observations have at …

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 …

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …

the poor: once expenditures for subsistence needs are subtracted from disposable household income, household …

consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …

deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for …

, we observe, that individual leisure activities depend strongly on income and education along with age and gender. Over … time, the influence of income also increases. In sum, it appears that differences in leisure are indeed still strongly …

visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … wealth by aggregating visible goods and assets using principal component weights. We find that relative deprivation in … visible wealth has a ten percentage point higher explanatory power for reporting a high level of perceived deprivation than …