The recession the United States economy entered in December of 2007 is considered to be the most severe downturn the country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 - the highest we have seen since the 1982 recession. In...

In dem Gutachten wird die Entwicklung von Höhe und Struktur des privaten Verbrauchsin Deutschland bis zum Jahr 2050 untersucht. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die Auswirkungen der zu erwartenden Veränderungen der Bevölkerung und der Zusammensetzung der Haushalte auf Höhe und Struktur des...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...