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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2007
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260926
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Aggregate Behavior and Microdata
Hildenbrand, Werner; Kneip, Alois - 2004
It is shown how one can effectively use microdata in modelling the change over time in an aggregate (e.g. mean consumption expenditure) of a large and heterogeneous population. The starting point of our aggregation analysis is a specification of explanatory variables on the micro-level....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263100
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Schätzung ökonometrischer Modelle auf der Grundlage anonymisierter Daten
Pohlmeier, Winfried; Lechner, Sandra - 2003
Die Anonymisierung von sensiblen Individualdaten führt zu einem Konflikt zwischen dem Ziel der Minimierung des Reidentifikationsrisikos und der Qualität ökonometrischer Schätzungen. Der durch Anonymisierung bedingte Verlust an Effizienz und/oder der Konsistenz eines Schätzers wirft die...
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Qualifikationsspezifische Arbeitslosigkeit im Jahr 2005 und die Einführung der Hartz-IV-Reform: empirische Befunde und methodische Probleme
Reinberg, Alexander; Hummel, Markus - 2007
Dass die Chancen und Risiken auf dem Arbeitsmarkt ganz zentral von den vorhandenen Qualifikationen abhängen, ist seit langem bekannt. Ein wichtiger Indikator hierfür sind die qualifikationsspezifischen Arbeitslosenquoten, deren Aktualisierung mittlerweile jedoch erhebliche Probleme aufwirft....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264658
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Who Smokes and How Much? - Empirical Evidence for Germany
Göhlmann, Silja - 2007
waves of the Mikrozensus, this paper portrays the smoking population in Germany to ascertain the socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264698
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Inaccurate age and sex data in the census PUMS files: Evidence and implications
Trent Alexander, J.; Davern, Michael; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples (PUMS files) of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266071
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The educational attainment of the second generation in Germany: social origins and ethnic inequality
Kristen, Cornelia; Granato, Nadia - 2007
With the German Microcensus we study the second generation's educational attainment in Germany focusing on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266774
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Using the P90/P10 index to measure US inequality trends with current population survey data: a view from inside the Census Bureau vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2007
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268284
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Prekäre Einkommenslagen in Deutschland: Ein Ost-West-Vergleich 1996 bis 2002
Buscher, Herbert S.; Parys, Juliane - 2006
West- und Ostdeutschland für die Zeit von 1996 bis 2002 auf der Grundlage der Daten des Mikrozensus. Die Untersuchung …, covering the period from 1996 to 2002. The data set used is the annual cross section data set "Mikrozensus". The main issues of …. Second, we set up a Logit model to explain relative poorness in East and West Germany using Mikrozensus data to capture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269951
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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates
Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010
Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272631