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Imputed rent and income inequality : a decomposition analysis for Great Britain, West Germany and the USA
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2003
This article deals with income advantages derived from owner-occupied housing and their impact on the personal income distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009660374
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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values
Winters, John V. - 2012
Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568788
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Language proficiency and homeownership : evidence from U.S. immigrants
Luik, Marc-André; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Voss, Simon - 2023
and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235116
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Housing and debt over the life cycle and over the business cycle
Iacoviello, Matteo; Pavan, Marina - 2009
matches the wealth distribution; the age profiles of consumption, homeownership, and mortgage debt; and data on the frequency … maximum borrowing limit, and housing investment, homeownership, and household debt closely track aggregate productivity. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906135
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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent : a cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002
This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435844
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Personelle Einkommensverteilung und der Einfluß von Imputed Rent
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2000
selbstgenutztem Wohneigentum ("Imputed Rent") und deren Einfluß auf die personelle Einkommensverteilung. Nach einer theoretischen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433765
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Identification and estimation of causal mechanisms and net effects of a treatment under unconfoundedness
Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2009
An important goal when analyzing the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome is to understand the mechanisms through which the treatment causally works. We define a causal mechanism effect of a treatment and the causal effect net of that mechanism using the potential outcomes framework. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858863
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Selection and the distribution of female hourly wages in the U.S.
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis; … - 2022
We analyze the role of selection bias in generating the changes in the observed distribution of female hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the years 1975 to 2020. We account for the selection bias from the employment decision by modeling the distribution of the number of working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805840
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Decomposing Changes in the Distribution of Real Hourly Wages in the U.S.
Fernández-Val, Iván; Peracchi, Franco; Vella, Francis; … - 2019
We analyze the sources of changes in the distribution of hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the survey years 1976 to 2016. We account for the selection bias from the employment decision by modeling the distribution of annual hours of work and estimating a nonseparable model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122973
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Decomposing real wage changes in the United States
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis - 2018
We employ CPS data to analyze the sources of hourly real wage changes in the United States for 1976 to 2016 at various quantiles of the wage distribution. We account for the selection bias from the annual hours of work decision by developing and implementing an estimator for nonseparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959185