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Nearly 1.1 million people in Germany use food banks, single and separated parents in particular at an above-average frequency

Grabka, Markus M.; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 39, pp. 239-244

Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of …

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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator

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

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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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 … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

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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

. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this … picture of the level and the socio-economic structure of wealth in Germany. Above and beyond such within-country variation …

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Income and wealth inequality after the financial crisis : the case of Germany

Grabka, Markus M. - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 42 (2015) 2, pp. 371-390

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Statistical matching of administrative and survey data : an application to wealth inequality analysis

Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2013 - Version of record: Aug 23, 2013

Using population representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative pension records from the Statutory Pension Insurance, the authors compare four statistical matching techniques to complement survey information on net worth with social security wealth...

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SOEP 2010 : preparation of data from the New SOEP consumption module ; editing, imputation, and smoothing

Marcus, Jan; Siegers, Rainer; Grabka, Markus M. - 2013

This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and introduces the content and structure of the generated dataset "hconsum". In 2010, the SOEP for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the...

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Wealth distribution within couples

Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting...

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Fertility effects of child benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2016

We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied substantially by household income and sibship size. We use these...

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