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Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia

Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic … inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars …. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. The …

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Measuring Regional Inequality by Internet Car Price Advertisements: Evidence for Germany

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the...

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The Shadow Economy in OECD Countries: Panel-Data Evidence

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In this paper, the extent of the shadow economy in OECD countries is investigated. The estimates of the size of the shadow economy are obtained using the panel-data techniques applied to the data on 38 OECD member states over the period 1991-2007. Our estimates tend to be somewhat lower than the...

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Does Democracy Foster Trust?

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique...

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The Preadult Origins of Post-Materialism: A Longitudinal Sibling Study

Kroh, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialistic values in Germany over two decades, this paper provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, we test the combined socialization and scarcity hypothesis...

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Der Einfluss von Erhebungsformen auf den Postmaterialismus-Index

Marcus, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Der vorliegende Beitrag ist eine Metaanalyse von 99 deutschen Bevölkerungssurveys aus dem GESIS-Datenarchiv, in denen die postmaterialistische Einstellung der Befragten ermittelt wird. Es wird anhand von Mehrebenenmodellen gezeigt, dass sich der Anteil der Postmaterialisten unter Kontrolle von...

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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Revising SWB Theory to Account for Change

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...

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Top-down v. Bottom-up: The Long-Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...

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The Role of Visible Wealth for Deprivation

Bertram-Hümmer, Veronika; Baliki, Ghassan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

Motivated by the lack of literature linking actual to perceived relative deprivation, this paper assesses the role of visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on household survey data that includes unique information...

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Zur Entwicklung der Preisniveaus in Ost- und Westdeutschland: zugleich eine Dokumentation verschiedener Preisniveau-Zeitreihen für das geteilte und für das vereinigte Deutschland

Vortmann, Heinz; Goebel, Jan; Krause, Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

The economic literature to date is underestimating the importance of regional price level differences. Only in the form of "rent indices" are these differences considered in relation to overall quality of life. As experimental estimates by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban...

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