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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality – The Case of Germany Since the 1980s

Faik, Jürgen - 2012

The discussion paper is concerned with the interplay between demography and macroeconomics on one hand and macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German...

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Income Inequality and Poverty in Front of and During the Economic Crisis – An Empirical Investigation for Germany 2002-2010

Faik, Jürgen - 2012

Germany in front of and during the economic crisis 2008-2010. This comprises binary logistic regressions where it is tested …

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A Behaviouristic Approach for Measuring Poverty : The Decomposition Approach - Empirical Illustrations for Germany 1995-2009

Faik, Jürgen - 2013

In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is determined. E. g., household size might be a criterion...

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Intergenerational Transfers from a Life Course Perspective; A Longitudinal Comparison of Gifts and Bequests (Schenkungen Und Erbschaften Im Lebenslauf; Vergleichende Längsschnittan...

Leopold, Thomas - 2009

. In Germany, gifts are highly private and leave more scope for decision-making than the regulated bequests. Thus, gifts …

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Do Immigrants Suffer More from Job Loss? Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being in Germany

Leopold, Liliya - 2016

This study asked whether immigrants suffer more from job loss than German natives do. Compositional, psychosocial, and normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are either more prevalent, more...

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Maternal Education, Divorce, and Changes in Economic Resources : Evidence from Germany

Leopold, Liliya - 2016

This study investigated the effects of divorce on educational gaps in mothers' economic resources. The results shed new light on two opposing theoretical positions that have informed research on social inequality in the consequences of divorce. Recent extensions of the “diverging destinies”...

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Education and Health Across Lives and Cohorts : A Study of Cumulative Advantage in Germany

Leopold, Liliya - 2016

Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses about health inequality. First, educational gaps in health widen with age – the cumulative advantage hypothesis. Second, this relationship has intensified across cohorts – the rising importance hypothesis. In this article, we...

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How Far Do Children Move? Spatial Distances after Leaving the Parental Home

Leopold, Thomas; Geißler, Ferdinand; Sebastian, Pink - 2011

single-parent household. At the community level, women from Eastern Germany moved farther, suggesting that the surplus of men …

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Polarization of Economic Well-Being, Distributional Conflicts, and Perceptions of Inequality in Germany (Wohlstandspolarisierung, Verteilungskonflikte Und Ungleichheitswahrnehmunge...

Faik, Jürgen; Becker, Jens - 2010

resources and the perception of social inequality in Germany will be picked out as a central theme. By means of empirical … by the wellbeing indicator income – has increased in the Federal Republic of Germany during the recent past. This is … includes some dangers for the democracy and the social stability in Germany although in an EU-27 perspective – at least in …

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Subjective and Objective Living Conditions of Unemployed Persons (Subjektive Und Objektive Lebenslagen Von Arbeitslosen)

Faik, Jürgen; Becker, Jens - 2010

The discussion paper picks out the objective and the subjective well-being of the unemployed in Germany compared to the …

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