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Wealth and politics : studies on inter vivos transfers and partisan effects
Schinke, Christoph - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742787
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Testing the validity of item non-response as a proxy for cognitive and non-cognitive skills
New, Sonja C. de; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - 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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Top incomes in Sweden over the twentieth century
Roine, Jesper (contributor);  … - 2005 - Preliminary version
This paper presents homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden from 1903 to 2003 using individual tax returns data. We find that Swedish top incomes have developed more similarly to the US, Canada and the UK than to other continental European countries when capital gains are included. The...
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Does the shadow economy increase income inequality in the short- and long-run? : empirical evidence from Uganda
Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-20
This paper investigates whether the size of the shadow economy increases income inequality in Uganda. This paper applies the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration, to test the long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and income...
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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Heshmati, Almas - 2021
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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Measurement error in earnings data: replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek’s mixture model approach to combining survey and register data
Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2021
Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW apply their method using parameter estimates...
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Modelling errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings : sensitivity to the fraction assumed to have error-free earnings
Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2020
Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labour Economics 2007) is an influential study of errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings. To fit their mixture models, Kapteyn and Ypma assume a specific fraction of their sample have error-free earnings. Using a new UK dataset, we assess the...
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Localising the upper tail : how top income corrections affect measures of regional inequality
Emmenegger, Jana; Münnich, Ralf T. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 3/4, pp. 285-317
Poor coverage of top incomes in surveys, also referred to as the "missing rich" problem, leads to severe underestimation of income inequality. At the regional level this shortcoming is even more eminent due to small regional sample sizes. Tax records contain more accurate income information at...
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Item non-response on income and wealth questions
Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002
detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413300
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Estimating regional wealth in Germany : how different are East and West really?
Kreutzmann, Ann-Kristin; Marek, Philipp; Salvati, Nicola; … - 2019
are still below the western German levels. This particularly holds for private net wealth, which reaches only about 40% of … study is designed to develop regional wealth indicators for the 16 federal states and for the 96 regional planning regions … skewness of the wealth distribution using a transformation, b) unit and item non-response, especially the multiple imputation …
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