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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010
as on income mobility. These findings are obviously even more important in cross-national comparative analyses if the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324275
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - 2005
offenses, portfolio choice, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260868
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324233
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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
post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …-non-response, thus supporting the cooperation continuum hy-pothesis in all three panels. Thirdly, applying various mobility indicators … there is a robust picture about earnings mobility being significantly understated using information from completely observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324248
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674101
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - 2005
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and withingroup components as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260928
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265004
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The impact of international migration and remittances on the labor-supply behavior of those left behind: evidence from Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - 2009
We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours … between a 'pure' migration (M) effect and the joint effect of migration and remittance income (MR) and evaluate these effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271122
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work: Panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383098
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324245