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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective

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

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

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

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...

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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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Der Einfluß von Imputed Rent auf die personelle Einkommensverteilung

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 221 (2001) 3, pp. 285-308

selbstgenutztem Wohneigentum ("lmputed Rent") und deren Einfluß auf individuelle Einkommen sowie die personelle Einkommensverteilung … in Deutschland. Nach einer theoretischen Darstellung der Verfahren und ihrer jeweiligen Vor- und Nachteile werden diese … zur personellen Einkommensverteilung und Einkommensmobilität. Neben der quantitativen Bedeutung dieser nicht …

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Properties of equivalence scales in different countries

Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2005

Recent studies in high-income industrialized countries have shown that equivalence scales are income-dependent. We investigate whether this dependence also holds in poorer, services oriented countries, by considering the example of Cyprus. We also examine whether household economies of scale and...

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Income and Well-being

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the importance of 'comparison income' for individual well-being or happiness. In other words, the influence of the income of a reference group on individual well-being is examined. The main novelty is that various hypotheses are tested: importance of...

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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - 2002

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...

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