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), ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2002,
(Discussion Papers No. 271)
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka