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  • Diskussionspapiere 1153 / 2011

    Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia

    We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household economic inequality in Latvia is much larger than officially assumed. The latest officially available estimate ...

    2011| Vyacheslav Dombrovsky, Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Boriss Siliverstovs
  • SOEPpapers 717 / 2014

    Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data

    We discuss and compare fi…ve measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the information requirements of these measures, we illustrate their implementation using data from the German Socio-Economic ...

    2014| Koen Decancq, Dirk Neumann
  • SOEPpapers 715 / 2014

    Unfair Pay and Health

    This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. Throughout the experiment we record ...

    2014| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist
  • SOEPpapers 712 / 2014

    Positional Income Concerns: Prevalence and Relationship with Personality and Economic Preferences

    This paper presents detailed evidence about who compares to whom in terms of relative income. We rely on representative survey data on the importance of income comparisons vis-a-vis seven reference groups, allowing us to exploit within-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and determinants of positional income concerns, investigating the role of personality and economic preferences. Our ...

    2014| Tim Friehe, Mario Mechtel, Markus Pannenberg
  • SOEPpapers 713 / 2014

    Who Dares, Wins? A Sibling Analysis of Tertiary Education Transition in Germany

    Past studies have found that parental background has a considerable impact on educational decisions. Our knowledge is, however, still limited regarding educational transitions later in life, such as into tertiary education. Is parental background a predominant factor in this relatively late educational decision, or do individual talent and determination have an impact of their own? We address this ...

    2014| Tamás Keller, Guido Neidhöfer
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 11 / 2014

    Private Net Worth in Eastern and Western Germany Only Converging Slowly

    Very nearly 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, households in eastern Germany have an average net worth of 67,400 euros which is less than half that of their counterparts in western Germany with an average net worth of 153,200 euros. In both parts of the country, real estate ownership is quantitatively the most important asset type. Although the share of owner-occupiers has increased significantly ...

    2014| Markus M. Grabka
  • Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 2 / 2014

    Vorausberechnung regionaler Altersarmut: Zunahme in Ballungsräumen und in Ostdeutschland

    Altersarmut wird in der sozialpolitischen Diskussion in Deutschland vor allem mit Blick auf die Grundsicherung im Alter diskutiert, zumindest darauf fokussiert ist Altersarmut bisher kein zentrales Thema. Mit der Grundsicherung wird allerdings nur die Hälfte der Altersarmut gesehen. Vergessen wird das Wohngeld, eine weitere finanzielle Unterstützung für Ältere. Wird auch dieses berücksichtigt, verdoppelt ...

    2014| Rudolf Martens
  • Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 2 / 2014

    Erwerbsminderungsrente in Deutschland: ein unterschätztes Risiko(?)

    Der Bezug von Erwerbsminderungsrente ist ein unterschätztes Risiko – es trifft in Deutschland mit mehr als jedem fünften Arbeitnehmer mehr Menschen als man denkt. Die empirischen Befunde, die auf verschiedenen Analyseebenen ansetzen, verdeutlichen: Im sechsten Lebensjahrzehnt ist das Risiko wegen chronischer Erkrankungen den Arbeitsmarkt vorzeitig zu verlassen besonders hoch. Eine Verlängerung der ...

    2014| Christine Hagen, Ralf K. Himmelreicher
  • Diskussionspapiere 1427 / 2014

    Comparing Wealth: Data Quality of the HFCS

    The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro‐countries after the financial crisis of 2007/8. The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several aspects point to potential methodological constraints regarding crosscountry comparability. Therefore the aim ...

    2014| Anita Tiefensee, Markus M. Grabka
  • SOEPpapers 725 / 2014

    A Disadvantaged Childhood Matters More if Local Unemployment Is High

    Using multilevel models on the German Socio‐Economic Panel Study this paper shows that disadvantaged young adults (16‐35 years old) are more affected by the business cycle than their similarly educated counterparts from more advantaged backgrounds. We propose that a disadvantaged background lowers desirability on the labour market, which matters more to employers as the labour market tightens. When ...

    2014| Wouter Zwysen
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