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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes

van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2003

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...

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Decomposing permanent and transitory poverty

Goebel, Jan - 2001

poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality … can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers … & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics of the proposed Poverty-Stability-Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the …

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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal

van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2001

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...

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The Impact of Child and Maternal Health Indicators on Female Labor Force Participation after Childbirth: Evidence for Germany

Dunkelberg, Annalena; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2007

This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure children?s health based on the...

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Who are the chronic poor? Evidence on the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany

Biewen, Martin - 2003

Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of chronic poverty in Germany …. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional poverty in a given year is chronic. The characteristics that … are most closely associated with long-term poverty are economic inactivity and pensioner status, while the number of …

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Missing Income Data in the German SOEP: Incidence, Imputation and its Impact on the Income distribution

Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003

This paper deals with the question of selectivity of missing data on income questions in large panel surveys due to item-non-response and with imputation as one alternative strategy to cope with this issue. In contrast to cross-section surveys, the imputation of missing values in panel data can...

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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. - 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

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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