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The selection of pay referents : potential patterns and impacts on life satisfaction

Schneider, Simone - 2010

Despite the relatively extensive research on pay levels and the consequences of income disparities, little is known about which reference groups people choose for comparative evaluation of personal income and why different selection patterns emerge. The aim of this paper is to dig deeper for...

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Why are middle-aged people so depressed? : evidence from West Germany

Brockmann, Hilke (contributor) - 2009

Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et al. 1999; Argyle 2001). Others hold that the association is U-shaped with either highest depression rates (Mroczek and Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636115

Social spending generosity and income inequality : a dynamic panel approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010 - This version: October 29, 2010

This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...

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Family events and the timing of intergenerationaI transfers

Leopold, Thomas; Schneider, Thorsten - 2010

This research investigates how family events in adult children's lives influence the timing of their parents' financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826571

Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP

Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …

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Benford's Law as an instrument for fraud detection in surveys using the data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - 2010

This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...

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Is Posner right? : an empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2010

empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the …

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