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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP

Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

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Eine exemplarische Anwendung der regionalisierten Preisniveau-Daten des BBSR auf die Einkommensverteilung für die Jahre 2005 bis 2008 : zugleich eine Dokumentation verschiedener Pr...

Goebel, Jan; Krause, Peter; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, … - 2010

Analyse der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland einbezogen. Im Ergebnis führt dies bei den verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen zu …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825075

Extending the empirical basis for wealth inequality research using statistical matching of administrative and survey data

Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2011

. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this … picture of the level and the socio-economic structure of wealth in Germany. Above and beyond such within-country variation …

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Familienbiographische Verläufe im Kohortenvergleich

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Rasner, Anika; … - 2012

In Deutschland werden die Geburtskohorten der 1956 bis 1965 Geborenen als Babyboomer bezeichnet. Diese Gruppe …

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) : scope, evolution and enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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Assessing the distributional impact of "imputed rent" and "non-cash employee income" in microdata : case studies based on EU-SILC (2004) and SOEP (2002)

Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007 - This version: 3 January 2007

There is general agreement about the importance of integrating non-monetary income components into cash-based income measures in order to improve the comparability of distribution results across time and space. Based on micro-data from the first round of EU-SILC (EU Statistics on Income and...

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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 - 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...

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Individual well-being in a dynamic perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2007 - This version: February 2007

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

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