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Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

University of Tübingen

Mohlstraße 36
D-72074 Tübingen

Email: martin.biewen(at)uni-tuebingen.de

Office Hours

Tuesday 12:00 - 13:30

Please make an appointment by email.

How to find us

Room 317

Mohlstr. 36, Directions

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), since 2008

Integrated Research Infrastructure in the Socio-Economic Sciences (IRISS), CEPS-INSTEAD, Luxemburg, since 2007

Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, since 2006

Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, since 2004

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, since 2004

Income Distribution

Labor Economics

Education Economics
http://www.ebf.uni-tuebingen.de/
http://www.wipaed.uni-mainz.de/illev/

Microeconometrics

Biewen, M., A. Juhasz (2012): Understanding Rising Inequality in Germany, 1999/2000 - 2005/06, forthcoming Review of Income and Wealth

Biewen, M., A. Juhasz (2011): Can Employment Changes Explain Rising Inequality in Germany?, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, Vol. 131, pp. 349 - 357.

Biewen, M., S. Steffes (2010): Unemployment persistence: Is there evidence for stigma effects?, Economics Letters, Vol. 106, pp. 188 - 190

Biewen, M. (2009): Measuring state dependence in individual poverty histories when there is feedback to employment status and household composition, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 24, pp. 1095 – 1116

Biewen, M., B. Fitzenberger, A. Osikominu, R. Völter, M. Waller (2006): Beschäftigungseffekte ausgewählter Maßnahmen der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland: Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Journal for Labour Market Research, Vol. 39, pp. 365 – 390

Biewen, M., S.P. Jenkins (2006): Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 68, pp. 371 – 383

Biewen, M. (2006): Who are the Chronic Poor? An Econometric Analysis of Chronic Poverty in Germany, Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 13, pp. 31 – 62

Biewen, M. (2005): The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality, German Economic Review, Vol. 6, pp. 445 – 469

Biewen, M., R. Wilke (2005): Unemployment duration and the length of entitlement periods for unemployment benefits: do the IAB employment subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel yield the same results?, Journal of the German Statistical Society, Vol. 88, pp. 209 – 236

Biewen, M., S.P. Jenkins (2005): A Framework for the Decomposition of Poverty Differences with an Application to Poverty Differences between Countries, Empirical Economics, Vol. 30, pp. 331 – 358

Biewen, M. (2002): Bootstrap inference for inequality, mobility and poverty measurement, Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 108, pp. 317 – 342

Biewen, M. (2002): Measuring Inequality in the Presence of Intra-Household Correlation, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 1003 – 1006

Biewen, M. (2001): Item-Nonresponse and Inequality Measurement: Evidence from the German Earnings Distribution, Journal of the German Statistical Society, Vol. 85, pp. 409 – 425

Biewen, M. (2001): Unemployment, Retirement, Female Labor Market Participation and Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis for Germany, Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, Vol. 121, pp. 59 – 82

Biewen, M. (2001): Measuring the Effects of Socio-Economic Variables on the Income Distribution: An Application to the East German Transition Process, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 83, pp. 185 – 190

Biewen, M. (2000): Income inequality in Germany during the 1980s and 1990s, Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 46, pp. 1 – 20

Biewen, M. (1999): Inequality trends in the German income distribution, Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung, Vol. 68, pp. 275 – 283

Arndt, C., Biewen, M., B. Boockmann, M. Rosenmann et al. (2011): Aktualisierung der Berichterstattung über die Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen in Deutschland für den 4. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung, Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales

Biewen, M. (2011): Koreferat zu "Mindestlöhne, Lohnsubventionen und Einkommenssicherung im Wohlfahrtsstaat, in: Umverteilung und Soziale Gerechtigkeit, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen

Biewen, M. (2008): State dependence and feedback effects in individual poverty histories, Proceedings of the 9th Iranian Statistical Conference, Department of Statistics, University of Isfahan

Biewen, M. (2008): Arbeitsmarktpolitik auf dem Prüfstand, Natur & Geist, Forschungsmagazin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 24. Jahrgang, S. 44 – 48

Bender, S., B. Fitzenberger, M. Lechner (unter Mitarbeit von M. Biewen, R. Miquel, A. Osikominu, M. Waller, C. Wunsch) (2005): Die Beschäftigungswirkung der FbW-Maßnahmen 2000 – 2002 auf individueller Ebene: Eine Evaluation auf Basis der prozessproduzierten Daten des IAB, Zwischenbericht, Forschungsprojekt 6-531.1A, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Nürnberg

Biewen, M. (2005): Cross-sectional vs. longitudinal views: econometric models of low income and low income dynamics in Germany, Habilitations­schrift, Universität Mannheim

Biewen, M. und B. Fitzenberger (2004): Neuausrichtung der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung, in: Hagen, T. und A. Spermann (Hrsg.): Hartz-Gesetze – Methodische Ansätze zu einer Evaluierung, ZEW Wirtschaftsanalysen, Bd. 74, Baden-Baden, pp. 190 – 202

Biewen, M. (2003): Handbook on Inequality Measurement (Book Review), Journal of Deve­lopment Economics, Vol. 70, pp. 543 – 548

Biewen, M. und S.P. Jenkins (2001): Who is most likely to be poor in Germany, in: Becker I., Ott N., und Rolf-Engel, G. (Hrsg.): Soziale Sicherung in einer dynamischen Gesellschaft, Frankfurt a. M., pp. 440 – 462

Biewen, M. (2000): Contributions to the measurement of German income inequality, Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg

If you use one of the following programs, please cite the corresponding paper. I am not responsible for any wrong results produced by these programs.

Biewen (2002)

Bootstrap for some Generalized Entropy measures [ge_entr.ado]

Bootstrap for differences of Generalized Entropy measures [diff_ge.ado]

Bootstrap for inequality decomposition by subgroup [sub_dec.ado]

Bootstrap for Prais mobility index [mob.ado]

Bootstrap for differences of Prais mobility index [diff_m.ado]

Examples [examples.txt]

Biewen/Jenkins (2006)

Complex survey variance estimates for Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices. In order to install these ado-files, type in Stata: ssc describe svygei_svyatk

Presentation at German Stata User Group Meeting 2006 [surv.ppt]

Das Programm iebview.exe produziert eine zusammenhängende graphische Darstellung der im Datensatz gesplitteten Orginalspells der Integrierten Erwerbsbiographien (IEB). Dokumenationen und Bezugsbedigungen zu verschiedenen Versionen des Datensatzes sind beim Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit erhältlich. Das Programm einschließlich Benutzungshinweisen gibt es hier.