In:
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Immigrant Incorporation. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States
Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : JAI Press
S. 35-46
| Gert G. Wagner, Felix Büchel, John P. Haisken-DeNew, C. Katharina Spiess
In:
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Immigrant Incorporation. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States
Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : JAI Press
S. 159-174
| Wolfgang Voges, Joachim R. Frick, Felix Büchel
We use data from the East German sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine the incomes of privileged individuals during the transition from socialism to capitalism. The standard measure of elite status is party membership, but this measure is likely to be inaccurate. Instead we identify the upperclass by the ownership of a telephone before the fall of the Berlin Wall. We find that ...
In:
Journal of Comparative Economics
26 (1998), 2, S. 211-225
| Edward J. Bird, Joachim R. Frick, Gert G. Wagner
This paper, using six waves of data (1984-89) from the United States Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), compares economic well-being using single year income, multi-year income, and wealth as measures. We find inequality to be greater in the United States than in Germany regardless of the measure used. However, the relative degree of inequality varies ...
In:
The Review of Income and Wealth
43 (1997), 2, S. 153-171
| Richard V. Burkhauser, Joachim R. Frick, Johannes Schwarze
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 1 / 1997
Bochum:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
1997,
14 Bl.
(Diskussionspapiere aus der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft ; 97-07)
| Gert G. Wagner, Felix Büchel, John P. Haisken-DeNew, C. Katharina Spieß