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Comparing Wealth: Data Quality of the HFCS
Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial …
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How to Use the EU-SILC Panel to Analyse Monthly and Hourly Wages
Engel, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers important variables over all EU Member States. Unfortunately, Eurostat provides separate data sets which do not cover all waves. Furthermore, information on monthly...
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A note on how to realize the full potential of the EU-SILC data
Berger, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers variables with a high potential for comparative European labour market and social research. Unfortunately, its current availability limits its potential research...
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Income, Wealth and Consumption of Cross-Border Commuters to Luxembourg
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, … - Central Bank of Luxembourg - 2012
market in general. This paper presents unique information on their income, wealth and consumption using representative survey … data from cross-border commuter households to Luxembourg. The estimated average total net wealth of cross-border commuter …
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The Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey (LU-HFCS): Introduction and Results
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, … - Central Bank of Luxembourg - 2012
findings. The estimated average (median) total net wealth of Luxembourg households is about EUR 733,000 (EUR 403,000) - an … real estate in Luxembourg. Average total gross income and total net wealth generally increase with household size, with age … not seem to differ significantly. This cannot be said for total net wealth and net real wealth, which, on average, is more …
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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
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Government Ideology, Globalization, and Top Income Shares in OECD Countries
Schinke, Christoph - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2014
I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share...
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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini - a "19th Century statistic" - which has subsequently become known as the ´Palma Ratio'. In this new article, I revisit the argument for such a measure. Using new data, I...
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The Return of "Patrimonial Capitalism": A Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Milanovic, Branko - In: Journal of Economic Literature 52 (2014) 2, pp. 519-34
<i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> by Thomas Piketty provides a unified theory of the functioning of the capitalist economy by linking theories of economic growth and functional and personal income distributions. It argues, based on the long-run historical data series, that the forces of...
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