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Niedrigere Arbeitslosigkeit sorgt für weniger Armutsrisiko und Ungleichheit
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 38, pp. 556-566
Nach einer mehrjährigen Phase kontinuierlich steigender Einkommensungleichheit und Einkommensarmut ist es im Zuge des konjunkturellen Aufschwungs der letzten Jahre zu einer Umkehr der Entwicklung gekommen. Nach den 2007 erhobenen Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zum Einkommen der...
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Gestiegene Vermögensungleichheit in Deutschland
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 4, pp. 54-67
Das individuelle Nettovermögen in Deutschland betrug zum Jahresbeginn 2007 im Durchschnitt rund 88 000 Euro und ist damit gegenüber 2002 um rund zehn Prozent gestiegen. Maßgeblich für diese Entwicklung war die Zunahme des Geldvermögens sowie der Vermögen aus privaten Versicherungen. Im...
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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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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 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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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation : An Empirical Link
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2004
This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the...
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Imputed Rent and Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, West Germany and the U.S.
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Review of Income and Wealth 49 (2003) 4, pp. 513-537
distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the U …
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Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany
Zaidi, Asghar; Frick, Joachim R.; Büchel, Felix - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
likelihood. The analysis uses the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) panel data …
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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects
Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2003
Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...
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Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010
household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially … biases results. The approach commonly used in such surveys of interviewing all adult household members and aggregating their ….e., the non-response of at least one unit, or member, of an otherwise participating household. In these cases, the aggregate …
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Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially … biases results. The approach commonly used in such surveys of interviewing all adult household members and aggregating their ….e., the non-response of at least one unit, or member, of an otherwise participating household. In these cases, the aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541307