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Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking...
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inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
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of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self … indices. Moreover, with the use of SF12, a generic health measure, the inequality indicator is reduced by a factor of ten …
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. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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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...
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...
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Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …
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macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the … correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been …
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