The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education 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...

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the household context....

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...

Die Nachfrage nach kulturellen Veranstaltungen ist bei Berlinern deutlich ausgeprägter als bei den übrigen Bundesbürgern. Dies gilt auch im Vergleich zu Bewohnern anderer deutscher Metropolen. Wie die Daten des vom DIW Berlin erhobenen Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigen, gilt das große...

Die vom DIW Berlin erhobenen Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigen, dass die Bereitschaft zur Arbeitszeitverkürzung im Jahre 2000 einen vorläufigen Höhepunkt erreichte. Im Durchschnitt wollte jeder abhängig Beschäftigte in Westdeutschland wöchentlich 1,8 Stunden und in...