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Regional contextual factors can have a crucial impact on educational attainment processes of young adults and subsequently on individual life chances. This paper develops a systematic approach of the spatial references of such contextual settings. The flexible concept allows combining aggregate data for configurations of regional units in order to empirically determine the spatial extension of relevant ...
In:
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
7:12 (2015),
| Katarina Weßling, Andreas Hartung, Steffen Hillmert
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The intention of this paper is to demonstrate the flexibility and capacity of penalized spline smoothing as estimation routine for modelling duration time data. We investigate the unemployment behaviour in Germany and the UK between 1995 and 2005 based on data from national panel studies. Functional duration time models are used to investigate the dynamics of covariate effects. The focus of our analysis ...
In:
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics
16 (2012), 1, 1-27
| Nina Westerheide, Goeran Kauermann
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Die Untersuchung analysiert die Sparneigung der im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel befragten Personen bzw. Haushalte in Bezug auf Erbschaften und Schenkungen. Ausgangspunkt sind Querschnittsregressionen, die den Vermögensbestand in 2002 durch das Lebenszeiteinkommen und in der Vergangenheit erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Schenkungen erklären. Es werden Verzögerungen in der Anpassung der Vermögensbestände an ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
225 (2005), 4, 459-481
| Peter Westerheide
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In:
Stefan Empter, Robert B. Vehrkamp ,
Soziale Gerechtigkeit - eine Bestandsaufnahme (Gemeinschaftsinitiative der Bertelsmann Stiftung, Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung und Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung)
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung
198-230
| Peter Westerheide
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Berlin:
2005,
| Peter Westerheide, Andreas Ammermüller, Andrea M. Weber
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This study examines the importance of parental health in the development of child behavior during early childhood. Our analysis is based on child psychometric measures from a longitudinal German dataset, which tracks mothers and their newborns up to age six. We identify major changes in parental health (shocks) and control for a variety of initial characteristics of the child including prenatal conditions. ...
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Review of Economics of the Household
14 (2016), 3, 577-598
| Franz Westermaier, Brant Morefield, Andrea M. Mühlenweg
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Blog des Promotionskollegs "Steuer- und Sozialpolitik bei wachsender Ungleichheit" an der FU Berlin,
2014,
| Christian Westermeier
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In Germany, a flagrant lack of official register or tax data for scholarly use leads to a situation wherein survey data is the last remaining source of evidence about the distribution of wealth. Two of the four research chapters in this thesis aim to evaluate methods for the improvement of available survey data. The other two contributions discuss the possibilities and limitations of survey data for ...
2017,
| Christian Westermeier
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Analysen zur Vermögensungleichheit auf Basis von Bevölkerungserhebungen untererfassen tendenziell die Top-Vermögenden. Gerade dieser Personenkreis ist aber von besonderer Bedeutung, weil er einen beträchtlichen Teil des Gesamtvermögens besitzt. Offizielle Registerdaten zur Vermögenssituation liegen für Deutschland nicht vor, die Top-Vermögen lassen sich lediglich an Hand von „Reichen-Listen“ simulieren. ...
In:
DIW Wochenbericht
82 (2015), 7, 123-133
| Christian Westermeier, Markus M. Grabka
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The analyses of wealth inequality based on survey data usually suffer from undercoverage of the upper percentiles of the very wealthy. Yet given this group’s substantial share of total net worth, it is of particular relevance. As no tax data are available in Germany, the largest fortunes can only be simulated using “rich lists.” For example, combining the Forbes list, with its approximately 50 German ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
5 (2015), 14+15/2015, 210-219
| Christian Westermeier, Markus M. Grabka