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Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Ausgewählte Ergebnisse werden mit solchen auf Basis der Panel Study of Income Dynamics …This article deals with various methods for dealing with income advantages of owner occupied housing (imputed rents …). It also explores the effects of such advantages on the distribution of individual income. Following a description of the …
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Das Einkommen ist ein wichtiger Bestimmungsgrund des individuellen Lebensstandards und der Teilhabe am … dabei einem Verteilungsmuster, das sich als Gradient beschreiben lässt: je niedriger das Einkommen, desto häufiger treten …Income is an important determinant of individual standards of living and participation in social life. Data from the …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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We investigate horizontal inequality between two conflictive ethnic groups, the Kyrgyz and the Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, by employing the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. This technique has a long tradition in labour economics but has not been used in the literature that links ethnic inequality and...
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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...
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We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level … an excess burden on middle-income earners. The paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (GSOEP) from …
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This paper deals with the question of selectivity of missing data on income questions in large panel surveys due to … the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP) when deriving annual income variables, complemented by purely crosssectional … relevance given by imputed income as a percentage share of the total income mass: e.g. while 21 % of all observations have at …
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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 …
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To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …
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This paper generalizes the analysis of distributive con?ict, politics, and growth developed by by Alesina-Rodrik (1994). We construct a heterogenous-agent framework in which both growth and the distribution of wealth are endogenous. Due to adjustments in the distribution of wealth, the...
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