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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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Equality of opportunity : East vs. West Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015

integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany. …

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Helping with the kids? : how family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior

Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna - 2016

difference-in-differences approach combined with matching. Based on a large panel dataset on families with children in Germany …

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Poverty is a public bad : panel evidence from subjective well-being data

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2016

. Using panel data for 39,239 individuals living in Germany from 2005-2013, we show that people’s SWB is negatively correlated …

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Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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Time and income poverty : an interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009

multinomial logit based on time use diary data of the German Time Use Study 2001/02. One striking result for Germany: the … herausragendes Ergebnis für Deutschland: Substitution zwischen Zeit und Einkommen ist signifikant und wir finden einen hohen …

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