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Routes to the top
König, Johannes; Schluter, Christian; Schröder, Carsten - 2023
Who makes it to the top? We use the leading, socio-economic survey in Germany supplemented by extensive data on the rich to answer this question. We identify the key predictors for belonging to the top 1 percent of income, wealth, and both distributions jointly. Although we consider many, only a...
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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296295
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324347
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2007
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533643
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Equivalence scales reconsidered – an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
Households can differ in size and needs. A reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore … by means of an inequality decomposition by household types. Country inequality rankings are sensitive to the conversion … strategy applied. The decomposition analysis reveals the underlying mechanisms. We find inequality estimates typically to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413420
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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082820
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-28, pp. 1-43
Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality … rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309600
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap … approach is implemented to test for statistical significance of our results. -- Inequality ; equivalence scale ; equivalent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009268979
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012
Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality … rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567072