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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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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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Personelle Einkommensverteilung und der Einfluß von Imputed Rent

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2000

Die vorliegende Untersuchung befaßt sich mit verschiedenen Verfahren zur Berücksichtigung von Einkommensvorteilen aus selbstgenutztem Wohneigentum ("Imputed Rent") und deren Einfluß auf die personelle Einkommensverteilung. Nach einer theoretischen Darstellung der Verfahren und ihrer...

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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

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

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of …

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

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

individual incomes to yield a final outcome measure for welfare analyses often suffers from partial unit non-response (PUNR), i … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …

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Worries across time and a ge in Germany: Bringing together open- and close-ended questions

Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text format. We find that relevant world events influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked...

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In vino pecunia? The association between beverage-specific drinking behavior and wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the alcohol-income puzzle. Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...

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Comparing wealth: Data quality of the HFCS

Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2014

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro-countries after the financial crisis of 2007/8. The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several...

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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens

Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the … extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare states, which is an issue at the macrosocial level, also creates … respect to the fairness of earnings and what effect welfare state interventions have. An important result of the analyses is …

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