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Decomposing Permanent and Transitory Poverty

Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

method of calculating the proportion of permanently impoverished persons among persons in poverty as a whole. The paper shows … poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics … of the proposed Poverty-Stability- Index allow for an intuitive differentiation between the relative sizes of permanent …

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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs.Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and...

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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community … Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and … poverty intensity are measured. Overall, the ranking across countries and dimensions is relatively robust. Denmark and …

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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...

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Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …

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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. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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 consid-erably with the...

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Missing Income Data in the German SOEP: Incidence, Imputation and its Impact on the Income Distribution

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper deals with the question of selectivity of missing data on income questions in large panel surveys due to item-non-response and with imputation as one alternative strategy to cope with this issue. In contrast to cross-section surveys, the imputation of missing values in panel data can...

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Fiscal Federalism and Tax Administration: Evidence from Germany

Bönke, Timm; Jochimsen, Beate; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

In many federations, fiscal equalization schemes soften fiscal imbalances across the member states. Such schemes usually imply that the member states internalize only a small fraction of the additional tax revenue from an expansion of the state-specific tax bases, while the remainder of the...

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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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...

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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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