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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper proposes a method for detecting income classes based on the change-point problem. There is an increasing …. Similarly, indices of social exclusion and sometimes indices of income inequality require detection of thresholds. The …

Given any income distribution, to each income we associate a subgroup containing all persons whose incomes are not … higher than this income and a person?s target shortfall in a subgroup is the gap between the subgroup highest income and his … own income. We then develop an absolute target shortfall ordering, which, under constancy of population size and total …