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Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations : Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates.These estimates are not statistically different …

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Estimating Poverty Among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Beltramo, Theresa; Dang, Hai-Anh; Sarr, Ibrahima; … - 2021

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …

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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R. - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2021

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education 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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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

Kuhn, Andreas - 2011

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are...

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The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation : An International Comparison

Kuhn, Andreas - 2010

This paper describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for fifteen OECD member countries. An overwhelming majority of individuals (more than 90%) believes that top executives earn more than they actually deserve. However,...

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Redistributive Preferences, Redistribution, and Inequality : Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries

Kuhn, Andreas - 2012

This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a panel of OECD countries, primarily focusing on the association between these subjective measures and the effective level of inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the...

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Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria

Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals...

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In the Eye of the Beholder : Subjective Inequality Measures and the Demand for Redistribution

Kuhn, Andreas - 2009

This paper presents a simple conceptual framework intended for describing individuals' subjective evaluations of occupational wage inequality and their demand for redistribution. Most importantly, the framework explicitly allows for the distinction between individuals' perceptions and their...

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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Frick, Joachim R. - 2006

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 within-group components as well...

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