Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and within-group components as well as an overlapping index for the different sup-populations. We find that East Germany is still a stratum ...

The Research Data Center (RDC) of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGI) for detecting whether two sub-samples represent the same universe

The Personal Distribution of Income and Imputed Rent. A Cross-National Comparison for the UK, West Germany and the USA

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study based on micro-data from the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP), ...

Imputed Rent and Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis for the Great Britain, West Germany and the U.S.

Item nonresponse on income questions in panel surveys: Incidence, imputation and the impact on inequality and mobility

Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the operationalization of CI in ...

Wealth Inequality on the Rise in Germany

Individual net wealth in Germany totaled an average of around 88,000 Euros at the beginning of 2007 which was about 10 percent higher than in 2002. Decisive for this development was an increase in monetary wealth as well as wealth from private insurance. In connection with the overall quite unequal division of wealth, the median i.e., the value which separates the richest 50 per cent of the population ...

Item Nonresponse and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective (chapter 19)

This chapter outlines the basic characteristics of the three panel surveys focusing on the incidence of item nonresponse (INR) with respect to labor income. It demonstrates the selectivity entailed by INR and investigates the time dependence of nonresponse behavior. The chapter describes the imputation methods applied in the three surveys. Based on rather typical empirical research questions using ...

Old-age pension entitlements mitigate inequality - but concentration of wealth remains high

Entitlements from old-age pension schemes - statutory, company, and private - represent a considerable source of wealth. For data-related reasons, analyses of the personal wealth distribution have so far failed to take this into account, however. According to recent calculations based on the 2007 data of the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP), the present value of total pension and state annuity entitlements ...