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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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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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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of …

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Personelle Einkommensverteilung und der Einfluß von Imputed Rent

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

This article deals with various methods for dealing with income advantages of owner occupied housing (imputed rents). It also explores the effects of such advantages on the distribution of individual income. Following a description of the theoretical aspects of the various methods as well as...

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The Personal Distribution of Income and Imputed Rent: A Cross-National Comparison for the UK, West Germany and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study...

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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

individual incomes to yield a final outcome measure for welfare analyses often suffers from partial unit non-response (PUNR), i … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …

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In Vino Pecunia?: The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...

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Comparing Wealth: Data Quality of the HFCS

Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro‐countries after the financial crisis of 2007/8. The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several...

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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens

Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the … extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare states, which is an issue at the macrosocial level, also creates … respect to the fairness of earnings and what effect welfare state interventions have. An important result of the analyses is …

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