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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003
inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438447
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European-wide inequality in times of the financial crisis
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2015
In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280012
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
This paper uncovers ongoing trends in idiosyncratic earnings volatility across generations by decomposing residual earnings auto-covariances into a permanent and a transitory component. We employ data on complete earnings life cycles forprime age men born 1935 through 1974 that covers earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373904
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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility
Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439136
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The broken elevator : declining absolute mobility of living standards in germany
Bönke, Timm; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Lüthen, Holger - 2024
higher income inequality contributed similarly to these trends. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468850
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Hicks in HANK : fiscal responses to an energy shock
Bayer, Christian; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Müller, Gernot J. - 2023
The distributional and disruptive effects of energy supply shocks are potentially large. We study the effectiveness of alternative fiscal responses in a two-country HANK model that we calibrate to the euro area. Energy subsidies can stabilize the domestic economy, but are fiscally costly and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391466
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A HANK2 model of monetary unions
Bayer, Christian; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Müller, Gernot J. - 2023
How does a monetary union alter the impact of business cycle shocks at the household level? We develop a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian model of two countries (HANK2) and show in closed form that a monetary union shifts the adjustment to a shock horizontally - across countries - within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305671
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The covariance structure of East and West German incomes and its implications for the persistence of poverty and inequality
Biewen, Martin - 2002
persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … that 52 to 69 percent of income inequality in West Germany were due to permanent differences between individuals and that … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436290
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Combining an ongoing panel with a new cross-sectional sample
Spieß, Martin; Rendtel, Ulrich - 2000
In this paper, a weight is derived for the calculation of design based estimators of totals, means and proportions using the ongoing German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and a new cross-sectional sample. In the first part of the paper, the selection schemes of the subsamples A, B, C and D of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432744
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Innovation, R&D efficiency and the impact of the regulatory environment : a two stage semi-parametric DEA approach
Cullmann, Astrid; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - 2009
This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach. Resources allocated to R&D are limited and should therefore be used efficiently given the institutional and legal constraints. This paper presents efficiency scores based on an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832741