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Income-dependent equivalence scales and choice theory implications for poverty measurement

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten - 2022

affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their …, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative impact on the measurement of poverty. We also suggest that future research … poverty and may guide anti-poverty policies. …

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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 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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Poverty in Germany : statistical inference and decomposition

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010

-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … have the highest poverty risk. Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the … period under investigation: the incidence and the intensity of poverty are substantially higher in the New states. A …

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Confronting the representative consumer with household-size heterogeneity

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2010

Much analysis in macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind consumer/investment choices by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. Heterogeneity at the micro level can jeopardize attempts to back up the representative consumer...

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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. - 2004 - Updated Version: April 2004

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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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. - 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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Personelle Einkommensverteilung und der Einfluß von Imputed Rent

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2000

Die vorliegende Untersuchung befaßt sich mit verschiedenen Verfahren zur Berücksichtigung von Einkommensvorteilen aus selbstgenutztem Wohneigentum ("Imputed Rent") und deren Einfluß auf die personelle Einkommensverteilung. Nach einer theoretischen Darstellung der Verfahren und ihrer...

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Routes to the top

König, Johannes; Schluter, Christian; Schröder, Carsten - 2023

Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a...

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Distributional impacts of climate mitigation policies : a meta-analysis

Ohlendorf, Nils; Jakob, Michael; Minx, Jan C.; … - 2018

Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing...

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

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