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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 ...
In:
Weekly Report
6 (2010), 8, 55-64
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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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 ...
In:
J. Besharov Douglas, A. Couch Kenneth ,
Counting the poor: new thinking about European poverty measures and lessons for the United States
New York: Oxford University Press
117-142
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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In:
Janet C. Gornick, Markus Jäntti ,
Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries
Stanford: Stanford University Press
362-385
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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The aim of this paper is to estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyze their impact on the income distribution and on economic inequality in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and taking into consideration regional and education-specific variation, the overall result is an expected leveling effect ...
In:
Journal of Income Distribution
19 (2010), 3-4, 17-40
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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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 ...
In:
Sociological Methods & Research
41 (2012), 1, 89-123
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Using representative income and time-use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyze their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach that relaxes some of the strong assumptions underlying both the standard opportunity cost approach and the housekeeper ...
In:
Empirical Economics
43 (2012), 3, 1143-1169
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2007,
(SOEPpapers 3)
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Eva M. Sierminska
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Most empirical distributional studies of well-being in developed countries rely on distributions of disposable income. From a theoretical point of view this practice is contentious since a household’s command over resources is determined not only by its spending power over commodities it can buy in the market but also on resources available to the household members through non-market mechanisms such ...
In:
Journal of Housing Economics
19 (2010), 3, 167–179
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Timothy M. Smeeding, Panos Tsakloglou
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2007,
(SOEPpapers 53)
| Joachim R. Frick, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2008,
(DIW Berlin Data Documentation 36)
| Joachim R. Frick, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Henning Lohmann (Eds.)