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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324273
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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761632
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Using Cross-Survey Imputation to Estimate Poverty for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia
Sarr, Ibrahima; Dang, Hai-Anh; Gutierrez, Carlos … - 2024
included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the … performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia … that we can reasonably impute poverty rates using an older household income survey and a more recent ProGres dataset for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567546
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658185
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Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?
Dang, Hai-Anh; Verme, Paolo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180015
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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822182
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Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Schechtman, Edna; … - 2004
A particular shortcoming of panel surveys is potential bias arising from selective attrition. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) we analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, inequality of income) by comparing results from two independently drawn panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261814
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Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267316
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation : An Empirical Link
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2004
This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272296
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566448