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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. In married and cohabiting couples...

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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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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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Transitioning towards more equality? : wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time

Sierminska, Eva; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Grabka, Markus M. - 2019

gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012 using individual level microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The …

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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States

Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017

and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

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Representative wealth data for Germany from the German SOEP : the impact of methodological decisions around imputation and the choice of the aggregation unit

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2007

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the...

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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009

-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … effects to increase over time. The analyses presented here, exemplified for Germany, make a clear case for the joint …

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Income distribution and the fear of crime : evidence from Germany

Acampora, Michelle; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2020 - This version: February 2020

We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use …

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Estimating the impact of alternative multiple imputation methods on longitudinal wealth data : conference paper

Westermeier, Christian; Grabka, Markus M. - 2014

Statistical Analysis in surveys is often facing missing data. As case-wise deletion and single imputation prove to have undesired properties, multiple imputation remains as a measure to handle this problem. In a longitudinal study, where for some missing values past or future data points might...

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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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