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Cumulation of cross-section surveys: evaluation of alternative concepts for the cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 compared to the Sample Survey of...

Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning - 2010

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...

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Human capital investments in children : a comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries

Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010

composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States … case of leisure time and eating time. -- parent-child time ; comparative research ; welfare regimes ; Finland ; Germany …

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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Time and income poverty : an interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009

multinomial logit based on time use diary data of the German Time Use Study 2001/02. One striking result for Germany: the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879371

Intensity of time and income interdependent multidimensional poverty : well-being and minimum 2DGAP : German evidence

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...

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Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2000

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...

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Polarization of time and income : a multidimensional approach with well-being gap and minimum 2DGAP ; German evidence

Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2013

for the polarization development of the working poor and the working rich in Germany. Results: Genuine personal leisure … particular supported by the new minimum 2DGAP approach, multidimensional polarization increased over that decade in Germany. …

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Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2000

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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : evidence from German longitudinal data on life satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...

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Entrepreneurs and freelancers are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German case

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016

Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...

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