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Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is implemented to test for statistical significance ...
In:
Economics
6 (2012), 28, 1-43
| Timm Bönke, Carsten Schröder
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The life cycle model predicts that individuals substitute leisure for consumption when they retire. We show that the effect of retirement on various well-being measures available in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) are compatible with this prediction: the overall effect on life satisfaction is negligible, while satisfaction with the free time increases and satisfaction with household income ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
83 (2012), 3, 311-329
| Eric Bonsang, Tobias J. Klein
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We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement decisions are correlated with unobserved characteristics that also affect home production. For males and females, we find that own retirement significantly increases ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2015,
(IZA DP No. 9156)
| Eric Bonsang, Arthur van Soest
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In:
Journal of Income Distribution
5 (1995), 1, 65-92
| John A. Bishop, K. Victor Chow, John P. Formby
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Greenville:
East Carolina University,
2002,
| John A. Bishop, K. Victor Chow, Feijun Luo, Lester A. Zeager
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In:
International Economic Review
44 (2003), 3, 965-978
| John A. Bishop, K. Victor Chow, Lester A. Zeager
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In:
Economics of Transition
9 (2001), 2, 515-532
| John A. Bishop, John P. Formby, Lester A. Zeager
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Greenville:
East Carolina University, Department of Economics,
1999,
| John A. Bishop, Lester A. Zeager
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In:
Journal of Income Distribution
10 (2001), 1-2, 26-39
| John A. Bishop, Lester A. Zeager
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The expansion of formal child care, particularly for children under the age of three, has resulted in more and more children from this age group attending day care facilities. This formal child care setting is frequently combined with care provided by grandparents or other individuals. The combination and number of child care settings made use of is influenced by a variety of socio-economic factors ...
2011,
20-26
| Liv Bjerre, Frauke H. Peter, C. Katharina Spieß