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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

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Extending the empirical basis for wealth inequality research using statistical matching of administrative and survey data

Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2011

. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this … picture of the level and the socio-economic structure of wealth in Germany. Above and beyond such within-country variation …

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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016

of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany. …

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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States

Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017

and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

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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 - 2007

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the...

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and …

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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. - 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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Copayments for ambulatory care in Germany : a natural experiment using a difference-in-difference approach

Schreyögg, Jonas; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

In response to increasing health expenditures and a high number of physician visits, the German government introduced a copayment for ambulatory care in 2004 for individuals with statutory health insurance (SHI). Because persons with private insurance were exempt from the copayments, this health...

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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

Sierminska, Eva; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married …

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Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice : the (near) future of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Anger, Silke; Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Grabka, … - 2009

Art von Service, der in Deutschland bislang nicht vorgehalten wird, notwendig (Beratung von Spezial-Erhebungen; ggf …

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