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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German Case

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016 - This version: April 2016

Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...

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Income and wealth poverty in Germany

Köhler, Theresa - 2016

household member owns real estate or equity. In this thesis, at risk of income poverty in Germany is estimated. In order to get … of income poverty nor at risk of wealth poverty. Poverty profiles in Germany and their changes over time are analyzed for … bootstrap confidence intervals are calculated for all results. Findings suggest that young age, region East Germany, single …

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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015

criteria to measuring inequality of opportunity in Germany. We illustrate our ex-post inequality of opportunity approach based …

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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of social orientation

Gerstorf, Denis; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Löckenhoff, … - 2016

Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood. This study moved beyond the typical consideration of health predictors and explored the role of social...

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Do immigrants suffer more from job loss? : unemployment and subjective well-being in Germany

Leopold, Liliya; Leopold, Thomas; Lechner, Clemens M. - 2016

This study asked whether immigrants suffer more from job loss than German natives do. Compositional, psychosocial, and normative differences between these groups suggest that various factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are either more prevalent, more...

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Do(n't) worry, it's temporary : the effects of fixed-term employment on affective well-being

Schumann, Paul; Kuchinke, Lars - 2019

survey in Germany. Random effects within between model (REWB) analyses were applied to examine differences between fixed …

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Parental child care time, income, and subjective well-being : a multidimensional polarization approach for Germany

Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...

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The role of body weight for health, earnings, and life satisfaction

Hübler, Olaf - 2019

public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …. Overweight women are less satisfied than others while this is not confirmed for underweight men from eastern Germany. When …

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Migration, social stratification, and dynamic effects on subjective well-being

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Kern, Christoph; Stein, Petra - 2019

Using German panel data and relying on internal relocation, this paper investigates the anticipation and adaptation of subjective well-being (SWB) in the course of migration. We hypothesize that SWB correlates with the process of migration, and that such correlations are at least partly socially...

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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction

Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019

This article investigates the effects of an increase in paid parental leave - twelve months instead of six months - on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), allows us to circumvent problems of selection of...

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