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Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Riskand Consumption Inequality
Primiceri, Giorgio E.; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to anincrease in the variance of … repeated cross-section data onconsumption and income to decompose idiosyncratic changes in income into predictable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861079
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Long Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain , 1993–2000
Cervini, María; Ramos, Xavi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides a longitudinal perspective on changes in Spanish male earnings inequality for the period 1993-2000, by decomposing the earnings covariance structure into its permanent and transitory parts. According to the Spanish sample of the European Community Household Panel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859605
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Sweden´s Pensioners: How They Have Fared in theRoller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and aHalf of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860764
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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Childrenin Sweden´s Three Metropolitan Areas
Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
income based on income of parents... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861356
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Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela:Testing the Divergence of Earnings and theSymmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
Fields, Gary S.; Duval-Hernandez, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines changes in individual earnings during positive and negative growthperiods in three Latin American economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We askwhether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those who experiencethe largest earnings gains or the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861360
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How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with aSingle Question?
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But manysurveys collect data with just … a single question covering all forms of income. This raisesissues of quality, and these are heightened when individuals … are asked about the householdtotal rather than own income alone. Data are typically banded, implying a loss of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861373
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce andExport Performance in German Enterprises:Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the averagewage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack ofdetailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newlyavailable data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486880
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Flexible Approximation of Subjective ExpectationsUsing Probability Questions:An Application to the Investment Game
Bellemare, Charles; Bissonnette, Luc R.; Kröger, Sabine - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use spline interpolation to approximate the subjective cumulative distribution function ofan economic agent over the future realization of a continuous (possibly censored) randomvariable. The method proposed exploits information collected using a small number ofprobability questions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861529
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Item Non-Response and Imputation of AnnualLabor Income in Panel Surveys from aCross-National Perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets(German SOEP, British BHPS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861862
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Dynamics of Work Limitation and Work in Australia
Oguzoglu, Umut - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
working age population. Five consecutive waves of theHousehold, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862600