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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2012-12), pp. 1143-1169

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

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Relative deprivation, reference groups and the assessment of standard of living

Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 1, pp. 31-45

This paper proposes two new indices of relative deprivation, derived from an extension of the concept of generalized Gini to the measurement of distributional change. Population- and income-weighted relative deprivation indices are then defined and, using panel data from the Consortium of...

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Evaluating Pro-poor Transfers When Targeting is Weak: The Albanian Ndihma Ekonomike Program Revisited

Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Verme, Paolo - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2009

The Albanian Ndihma Ekonomike is one of the first poverty reduction programs launched in transitional economies. Its …

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Institutions and Poverty: A Critical Comment Based on Evolving Currents and Debates

Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …

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Does Intelligence Affect Economic Diversification?

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Asongu, Simplice - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014

This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic diversification. Using a battery of estimation techniques that are robust to endogeneity, we find that human capital has positive correlations with export diversification,...

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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...

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Economic Gains from Educational Transfers in Kind in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 3-4, pp. 17-40

The aim of this paper is to estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyze their impact on the income distribution and on economic inequality in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and taking into...

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Individual Diversity and the Gini Decomposition

Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted as the degree of diversity of each individual from all other members of society. Among various possible forms of individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature, we...

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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

Conchita D’Ambrosio; Frick, Joachim R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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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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; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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