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Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data
Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2011
's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses … distribution of individual net worth as well as overall inequality. The present value of pension entitlements (including … results based on net worth only, inequality of our amended wealth measure is about 25 percent less. Moreover, we present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601001
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Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data
Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses … distribution of individual net worth as well as overall inequality. The present value of pension entitlements (including … results based on net worth only, inequality of our amended wealth measure is about 25 percent less. Moreover, we present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836256
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Eine exemplarische Anwendung der regionalisierten Preisniveau-Daten des BBSR auf die Einkommensverteilung für die Jahre 2005 bis 2008
Goebel, Jan; Krause, Peter; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, … - 2010
Analyse der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland einbezogen. Im Ergebnis führt dies bei den verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen zu … für künftige Analysen der personellen Einkommensverteilung eine systematische Berechnung und Einbeziehung der regionalen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600926
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Direct evidence on income comparisons and subjective well-being
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294938
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Representative Wealth Data for Germany from the German SOEP: The Impact of Methodological Decisions around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva M. - 2007
analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth … wealth holders (increasing on average by 15%) and also on aggregate wealth (plus 30%). However, with respect to inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600649
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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany
Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
definition of the aggregation unit and by controlling its effect on distribution and inequality analysis. We find empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600761
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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009
-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing … choice of method. Although the substantive notion of reduced inequality is stable, the degree of variation in our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600803
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Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009
alternative private investments, our results indicate that they donot coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other …-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600897
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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017
We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622581
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Transitioning towards more equality? Wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time
Sierminska, Eva; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Grabka, Markus M. - 2019
The objective of the study is to investigate the changing role of explanatory factors of wealth and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individual level microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The authors apply distributional decomposition methods and focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053261