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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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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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Income and wealth inequality after the financial crisis : the case of Germany
Grabka, Markus M. - 2015
paper we focus on the short-term distributional effects in Germany, as this country was one of the OECD countries which had … the German Socio Economic Panel which is a representative longitudinal survey of private households in Germany. This … in Germany. Our main finding is that we do not find any significant distributional changes during the Great Recession …
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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016
of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany. …
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