Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially biases results. The approach commonly ...
2010| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg
In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a comparison of 20 countries the present study analyses to what extent this is due to the differences in the institutional framework conditions of a given country. The analyses are based on micro data from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) of 2006 and macro data from ...
In:
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
62 (2010), 1, S. 1-30
| Henning Lohmann
Die 1990 eingeführte Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion der BRD mit der DDR und schließlich die deutsche Wiedervereinigung war und ist für jede Statistik, die versucht die Lebensverhältnisse in Ost und West zu vergleichen, eine große Herausforderung. In seinem einleitenden Teil dokumentiert dieser Aufsatz die unmittelbar nach der Wiedervereinigung und in den 90er Jahren vom DIW Berlin vorgenommenen Kaufkraftparitäten-Berechnungen ...
2010| Jan Goebel, Peter Krause, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Gert G. Wagner
Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially biases results. The approach commonly ...
2010| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg
Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet progress on the questions of who people use as social referents and whether differential selection patterns exist can only be made based on valid and reliable measures of pay referents included in large-scale population surveys. The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is pursuing ...
Nachhaltigkeitspolitik muss die wechselseitigen Abhängigkeiten von menschlichem Leben und Wirtschaften und Natur berücksichtigen, sie muss die hohen moralischen Standards erfüllen, die die Brundtland-Kommission 1987 gesetzt hat, und sie muss schließlich Menschen motivieren, sich dementsprechend zu verhalten. Das alles ist eine ziemlich große Herausforderung, die oft auf eine zu einfache Art und...
Income disparities between poorer and richer households in Germany have been widening since reunification. Although this income polarisation is reduced during economically favourable periods by strong growth in employment, once the good times are over, it rises all the faster. The longer-term trend not only shows that the number of poorer households is steadily increasing, but also that on average ...
2010| Jan Goebel, Martin Gornig, Hartmut Häußermann