Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Immigration has Increased Income Inequality and Poverty in Germany Slightly

Biography and Life History Data in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP, v27, 1984 - 2010)

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 ...