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Comparing Wealth: Data Quality of the HFCS
Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266591
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How to Use the EU-SILC Panel to Analyse Monthly and Hourly Wages
Engel, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers important variables over all EU Member States. Unfortunately, Eurostat provides separate data sets which do not cover all waves. Furthermore, information on monthly...
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A note on how to realize the full potential of the EU-SILC data
Berger, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers variables with a high potential for comparative European labour market and social research. Unfortunately, its current availability limits its potential research...
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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 M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017464
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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 M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …-data-collection stage may interfere consid-erably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distri-bution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068905
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Income, Wealth and Consumption of Cross-Border Commuters to Luxembourg
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, … - Central Bank of Luxembourg - 2012
market in general. This paper presents unique information on their income, wealth and consumption using representative survey … data from cross-border commuter households to Luxembourg. The estimated average total net wealth of cross-border commuter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826808
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The Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey (LU-HFCS): Introduction and Results
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Ziegelmeyer, … - Central Bank of Luxembourg - 2012
findings. The estimated average (median) total net wealth of Luxembourg households is about EUR 733,000 (EUR 403,000) - an … real estate in Luxembourg. Average total gross income and total net wealth generally increase with household size, with age … not seem to differ significantly. This cannot be said for total net wealth and net real wealth, which, on average, is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826817
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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
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Government Ideology, Globalization, and Top Income Shares in OECD Countries
Schinke, Christoph - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2014
I investigate how government ideology and globalization are associated with top income shares in 16 OECD countries over the period 1970 to 2010. I use the new World Top Incomes Database. Globalization is measured by the KOF index of globalization. The results show that the top 1% income share...
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