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Estimating Benefits from Regional Amenities: Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction

Faßhauer, Angela; Rehdanz, Katrin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

This paper is the first to link economic theory with empirical life-satisfaction analyses referring to internal migration. We derive an extension of the Roback (1982) model to account for benefits from regional amenities in the utility function, while controlling for income, housing costs, and...

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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply

Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...

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Demografie und Ungleichheit: der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes, which take into...

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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...

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The Optimal Choice of a Reference Standard for Income Comparisons: Indirect Evidence from Immigrants' Return Visits

Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004) prediction that individuals' reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...

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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...

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

Decancq, Koen; Neumann, Dirk - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

We discuss and compare five 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...

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The Effect of Local Crime on Well-Being: Evidence for Germany

Krekel, Christian; Poprawe, Marie L. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of local crime on well-being in Germany, using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a novel data set constructed from official police crime statistics, covering both counties and urban … districts for the time period between 1994 and 2012. We find that local area crime has a significantly negative impact on life …

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