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Measuring Income in Household Panel Surveys for Germany: A Comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP

Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

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German Male Income Volatility 1984 to 2008: Trends in Permanent and Transitory Income Components and the Role of the Welfare State

Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010

. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we …

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Does money change who you are? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of wage increases on personality

Ayaita, Adam - 2022

Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...

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Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically? An illustration with German data

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - 2014

We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...

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Dynamics of income rank volatility: Evidence from Germany and the US

Chauvel, Louis; Hartung, Anne; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2017

This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals' relative positions in the...

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Income changes do not influence political participation: Evidence from comparative panel data

Jungkunz, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2021

latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large … research on (political) inequality in youth and childhood. …

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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …

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Income mobility

Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2013

We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.

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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum: eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP

Hajek, André - 2011

In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...

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The effect of self-employment on income inequality

Schneck, Stefan - 2018

influence function regression of inequality measures corroborate that self-employment is a source of income inequality in the …

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