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Pandemic depression: COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...
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Age-specific effects of early daycare on children's health
Barschkett, Mara - 2022
Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little...
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Poverty and transitions in health
Adena, Maja; Myck, Michał - 2013
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes...
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2019
Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks, productivity and preferences, and the financial...
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Mortality in midlife for subgroups in Germany
Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; Schmieder, Julia - 2019
Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the US. This trend is driven by deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related diseases, termed as deaths of despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In...
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Distributional effects of the COVID-19 lockdown
Clemens, Marius; Heinemann, Maik - 2020
A two-sector incomplete markets model with heterogeneous agents can be used to study the distributional effects of the COVID-19 lockdown. While negative aggregate welfare effects of the lockdown are unavoidable, the size of aggregate welfare effects as well as the distribution of the welfare...
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Unterschiede in Covid-19-Impfquoten und in den Gründen einer Nichtimpfung nach Geschlecht, Alter, Bildung und Einkommen
Huebener, Mathias; Wagner, Gert G. - 2021
Offizielle Daten des Digitalen Impfquoten-Monitoring (DIM) des RKI erlauben es nicht, anhand von sozio-demografischen und sozio-ökonomischen Merkmalen Personengruppen mit einer vergleichsweise geringen Impfquote zu identifizieren und dadurch eine gezielte Ansprache für eine Impfung zu...
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The rising longevity gap by lifetime earnings: Distributional implications for the pension system
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Lüthen, Holger - 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...
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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national Perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007
, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent … average in SOEP and HILDA, while this relationship is negative using BHPS data. However, once applying the very same … imputation procedure used for HILDA and SOEP, namely the row-and-column-imputation approach suggested by Little & Su (1989), also …
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European financial market integration: a closer look at government bonds in Eurozone countries
Weber, Sebastian - 2009
The European Union made a number of steps not least of them the introduction of a common currency to foster the integration of the European financial markets. A number of papers have tried to gauge the degree of integration for various financial markets looking at the convergence of interest...
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