This paper deals with the question of selectivity of missing data on income questions in large panel surveys due to item-non-response and with imputation as one alternative strategy to cope with this issue. In contrast to cross-section surveys, the imputation of missing values in panel data can profit from longitudinal information which is available for the very same observation units from other points ...
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain how it was possible both for 'the poor' to have fared badly relatively to 'the rich' in the USA during the 1980s (when income inequality grew substantially), and ...
In:
Peter Krause, Gerhard Bäcker, Walter Hanesch (Eds.) ,
Combating Poverty in Europe
Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate
S. 1- 19
| Gerhard Bäcker, Walter Hanesch, Peter Krause
In:
Peter Krause, Gerhard Bäcker, Walter Hanesch (Eds.) ,
Combating Poverty in Europe
Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate
S. 305-316
| C. Katharina Spieß, Gert G. Wagner
This article deals with income advantages derived from owner-occupied housing and their impact on the personal income distribution. Using micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we find distinct cross-national differences in terms of the prevalence and extent of imputed rent. Results from inequality ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
49 (2003), 4, S. 513-537
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel, surveyed in 1999 including 813 youths aged 16 through 19. We find strong evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases the probability that their children likewise become smokers. Youths living in families with both parents smoking ...
We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of endogeneous switching regression, and is fitted using simulated maximum likelihood methods. The estimates, derived ...