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Comparing Wealth: Data Quality of the HFCS

Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial …

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Representative Wealth Data for Germany from the German SOEP: The Impact of Methodological Decisions around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

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 …

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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...

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Item Non-response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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Der Einfluss von Erhebungsformen auf den Postmaterialismus-Index

Marcus, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Der vorliegende Beitrag ist eine Metaanalyse von 99 deutschen Bevölkerungssurveys aus dem GESIS-Datenarchiv, in denen die postmaterialistische Einstellung der Befragten ermittelt wird. Es wird anhand von Mehrebenenmodellen gezeigt, dass sich der Anteil der Postmaterialisten unter Kontrolle von...

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Kognitionspotenziale Jugendlicher: Ergänzung zum Jugendfragebogen der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) ; Methodenbericht und Variablendokumentation

Schupp, Jürgen; Hermann, Sabrina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Im Jahr 2006 wurde erstmals ein Kognitionstest für Jugendliche in das Erhebungsinstrumentarium des SOEP aufgenommen und seitdem jährlich bei einer neuen Jugendkohorte durchgeführt. Ein speziell modellierter Fragebogen erfasst basierend auf dem I-S-T 2000-Test die fluiden...

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Respondent Driven Sampling

Schonlau, Matthias; Liebau, Elisabeth - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a network sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (e.g. drug users, men who have sex with men, people with HIV). Similar to snowball sampling, initial seed respondents recruit additional respondents from their network of friends....

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Changing from PAPI to CAPI: A Longitudinal Study of Mode-Effects Based on an Experimental Design

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper examines the implication of the move to CAPI for data quality by analyzing the conversion from PAPI to CAPI of a subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which was done within an experimental design. The 2000 addresses for the sample E of SOEP were split into two subsamples...

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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...

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Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia

Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household...

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