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Everyone happy: Living standards in Germany 25 years after reunification

Priem, Maximilian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 11, pp. 65-71

in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the east-west divide prevails. Evidence of this can be found in the latest data … Germans, although the level of life satisfaction in the east was higher than at any other point in the history of the survey … subjective indicators reveal differences in satisfaction with household income, health, and childcare. In contrast, job …

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Everyone Happy: Living Standards in Germany 25 Years after Reunification

Priem, Maximilian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 11, pp. 65-71

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Wages in Eastern Germany Still Considered More Unjust Than in the West

Liebig, Stefan; Hülle, Sebastian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 11, pp. 59-64

Almost twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, far more eastern Germans are unhappy with their income than western Germans. In 2013, around 44 percent of employed eastern Germans rated their earnings as unjust compared with approximately one-third in western Germany. Although the...

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Wages in Eastern Germany still considered more unjust than in the west

Liebig, Stefan; Hülle, Sebastian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 11, pp. 59-64

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Aircraft Noise in Berlin Affects Quality of Life Even Outside the Airport Grounds

Eibich, Peter; Kholodilin, Konstantin; Krekel, Christian; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 9, pp. 127-133

using objective aircraft noise data, is associated with significantly reduced well-being, lower satisfaction with one …

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Aircraft noise in Berlin affects quality of life even outside the airport grounds

Eibich, Peter; Kholodilin, Konstantin; Krekel, Christian; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 9, pp. 127-133

using objective aircraft noise data, is associated with significantly reduced well-being, lower satisfaction with one …

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Does better, cheaper day care make for more satisfied parents?

Camehl, Georg F.; Stahl, Juliane F.; Schober, Pia S.; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 45/46, pp. 604-611

education. The present article primarily focuses on parental satisfaction with various quality aspects. To determine this, data … satisfaction with different aspects related to organization, equipment and resources, pedagogic staff, activities with the children …

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Lessons for Europe from German monetary union

Fratzscher, Marcel - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 27, pp. 361-364

Precisely 25 years ago, on July 1, 1990, German monetary union came into force. On the same day, capital controls in Europe were abolished, creating the basis for European monetary union and the euro. These two historical events fundamentally changed Germany and the rest of Europe. Both German...

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Significant Statistical Uncertainty over Share of High Net Worth Households

Westermeier, Christian; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 14/15, pp. 210-219

The analyses of wealth inequality based on survey data usually suffer from undercoverage of the upper percentiles of the very wealthy. Yet given this group’s substantial share of total net worth, it is of particular relevance. As no tax data are available in Germany, the largest fortunes can...

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Social and Economic Characteristics of Financial and Blood Donors in Germany

Priller, Eckhard; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 1 (2011) 6, pp. 23-30

Surveys of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) have shown that Germans donated around 5.3 billion euros in 2009- right in the middle of the financial and economic crisis. The type and amount of donations made is well documented in Germany. However, until recently, there was very little...

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