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Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We …

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Preparation of Data from the New SOEP Consumption Module: Editing, Imputation, and Smoothing

Marcus, Jan; Siegers, Rainer; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel …

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Myth or fact? The beauty premium across the wage distribution in Germany

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - In: Economics Letters 129 (2015) C, pp. 29-34

We allow for differential effects of physical appearance across the wage distribution using a technique traditionally used in the finance literature. We find an average beauty premium of 2%–4% for women, which is concentrated at the bottom of the wage distribution. The average beauty premium...

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Does Equal Opportunity Bring Men and Women Closer to Wealth Equality?

Sierminska, Eva - In: Review of Income and Wealth 60 (2014) 4, pp. 985-990

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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance and self-confidence across the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at either end of the wage distribution. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two...

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To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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To Own or Not to Own?: Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

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The distribution of debt across Euro Area countries: The role of individual characteristics, institutions and credit conditions

Bover, Olympia; Casado, Jose Maria; Costa, Sonia; Du … - Central Bank of Ireland - 2014

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we present an up-to-date assessment of the differences across euro area countries in the distributions of various measures of debt conditional on household characteristics. We consider three different outcomes: the probability of holding debt, the amount...

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The distribution of debt across euro area countries: the role of individual characteristics, institutions and credit conditions

Bover, Olympia; Casado, Jose Maria; Villanueva, Ernesto; … - Banco de España - 2013

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The distribution of debt across euro area countries: The role of individual characteristics, institutions and credit conditions

Bover, Olympia; Casado, Jose Maria; Costa, Sonia; Du … - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2014

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