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Measuring inequality using censored data : a multiple imputation approach
Jenkins, Stephen; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … using complete data methods. Estimation and inference uses Reiter's (Survey Methodology 2003) formulae. Using Current … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818749
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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
household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study based on micro-data from the British Household Panel Study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435844
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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002
We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437003
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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 …-section surveys, the imputation of missing values in panel data can profit from longitudinal information which is available for the … inequality measures based only on truly observed information to those derived from all (i.e., observed and imputed) observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439127
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The top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece
Bach, Stefan; Thiemann, Andreas; Zucco, Aline - 2015
results for Greece are ambiguous since the data do not show clear concentration patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317780
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Looking for the missing rich : tracing the top tail of the wealth distribution
Bach, Stefan; Thiemann, Andreas; Zucco, Aline - 2017
We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, and Spain based on the first and second wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). Since top wealth is likely to be underrepresented in household surveys, we integrate big fortunes from rich lists, estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780808
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373904
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The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality
Biewen, Martin - 2002
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the dynamics of equivalent income in … persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436290
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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility
Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439136
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We … illustrate our approach with an application to German data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519518