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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany using a Gini Decomposition Approach
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005
unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413364
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Equivalence scales reconsidered – an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
for examining the sensitivity of the Gini and the Theil index to the chosen conversion strategy, and explain our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413420
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Individual Diversity and the Gini Decomposition
Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted … individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature, we show that only one form satisfies a set of desirable properties …. This form can be used for decomposing the Gini into population subgroups. An illustration with UK data shows the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878125
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Why has inequality in Germany not risen further after 2005?
Rehm, Miriam; Schmid, Kai Daniel; Wang, Dieter - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
In this paper we explore the reasons for the trend reversal in the development of household market income inequality in Germany in the second half of the 2000s. We analyse to what extent the increasing relevance of capital income as well as the rising share of atypically employed persons have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780741
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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Evolution, Scope and Enhancements
Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010
After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222824
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
Conchita D’Ambrosio; Frick, Joachim R. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413402
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Using Rich Lists to Study the Super-Rich and Top Wealth Inequality: Insights from Switzerland
Baselgia, Enea; Martínez, Isabel Z. - 2024
We present a new data set we built based on Swiss rich lists going back to 1989. We show, among other things, that 60% of the super-rich are heirs—a fraction twice as large as in the US—and that wealth mobility at the very top has declined significantly. We find that top 0.01% wealth shares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534340
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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424473
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Tracking and Taxing the Super-Rich: Insights from Swiss Rich Lists
Baselgia, Enea; Martínez, Isabel Z. - 2022
We collect, digitize, and supplement the Swiss rich list for the years 1989–2020 published in the "BILANZ" business magazine to gain new insights on the structure and dynamics of top wealth in Switzerland. Using this data allows us study the super-rich in Switzerland in ways that were not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353390
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Ungrouping income distributions: Synthesising samples for inequality and poverty analysis
Shorrocks, Anthony; Wan, Guanghua - 2008
counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284587