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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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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption : Efficient, But Regressive?

Pestel, Nico - 2013

Shifting taxes from labor income to consumption is regularly suggested as a measure to induce work incentives. We investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the income distribution in Germany, which is compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in...

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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top : Evidence for Germany

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...

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Multidimensional Affluence : Theory and Applications to Germany and the US

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...

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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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Beyond Inequality Accounting : Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Pestel, Nico - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...

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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011

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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