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Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …
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In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...
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Previous research into the correlates and determinants of non-response in longitudinal surveys has focused exclusively on why it is that respondents at one survey wave choose not to participate at future waves. This is very understandable if non-response is always an absorbing state, but in many...
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and account for the nonindependence of both careers. Second, I compare evidence from the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany …-earner couples are temporarily adversely affected in their careers by long-distance moves in the UK and West Germany after … controlling for various characteristics of both partners. Women in East Germany are not affected by long-distance moves. Moves do …
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We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...
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Both health and income inequalities have been shown to be much greater in Britain than in Germany. One of the main … those on low incomes in Britain, early retirement is more concentrated among those on high incomes. In contrast, in Germany … data sets from Britain and Germany to estimate hazard models of the effect of health on early retirement. The hazard models …
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Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory...
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shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be …
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analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born … 48 per cent in the 1971-75 birth cohort, while it almost did not change in Germany. Overall, absolute but also relative …
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In Germany, private health insurance covers more innovative and costly treatments than public insurance. Moreover …
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