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Time and Income Poverty: An Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty Approach with German Time Use Diary Data

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important dimension and the interdependence of the...

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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany

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

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...

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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany

Sinning, Mathias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This paper examines the relative wealth position and the portfolio choices of immigrants in Germany. The empirical findings reveal significant differences in overall wealth and various wealth components between German natives and immigrants. Differences in real estate constitute the major part...

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Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification

Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West Germany was slightly less than that before unification....

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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the "Right" Indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Behind the Curtain: The Within-Household Sharing of Income

Elsas, Susanne - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income …. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare … economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction for both household partners are used to gain information about the …

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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...

Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....

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Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data

Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that...

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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population

Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

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