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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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To claim or not to claim : estimating non-take-up of social assistance in Germany and the role of measurement error

Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) inGermany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...

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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

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

-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … alternative private investments, our results indicate that they donot coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other …

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Fertility effects of child benefits

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wiynck, Frederik - 2017

We exploit the 1996 reform of the German child benefit program to identify the causal effect of heterogeneous child benefits on fertility. While generally the reform increased child benefits, the exact amount of the increase varied by household income and the number of children. We use these...

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Who buffers income losses after job displacement? : the role of alternative income sources, the family, and the state

Fackler, Daniel; Weigt, Eva - 2016

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) this paper analyses to what extent alternative income sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed...

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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016

Research on wealth inequality usually focuses on real and financial assets, while pension wealth – the present value of …

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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States

Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017

We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and...

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) : scope, evolution and enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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Representative wealth data for Germany from the German SOEP : the impact of methodological decisions around imputation and the choice of the aggregation unit

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

analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth … wealth holders (increasing on average by 15%) and also on aggregate wealth (plus 30%). However, with respect to inequality …

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Individual well-being in a dynamic perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2007 - This version: February 2007

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

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