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Bank sucht Frau
Hamacher, Eli - In: Die Bank (2015) 4, pp. 64-70
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512017
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...
Hajek, André - 2011
In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128105
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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130949
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So Far So Good : Age, Happiness, and Relative Income
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2012
In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113216
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Predicting the Trend of Well-Being in Germany : How Much Do Comparisons, Adaptation and Sociability Matter?
Bartolini, Stefano - 2011
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the variation of subjective well-being experienced by Germans over the last two decades testing the role of some of the major correlates of people's well-being. Our results suggest that the variation of Germans' well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117311
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117988
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121282
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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality – The Case of Germany Since the 1980s
Faik, Jürgen - 2012
The discussion paper is concerned with the interplay between demography and macroeconomics on one hand and macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096398
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The Evolution of Income Inequality in Germany and Switzerland Since the Turn of the Millennium
Grabka, Markus - 2012
This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … inequality reveals the effects of Germany's slightly older population and smaller household sizes, as well as the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101854
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Completing the Bathtub? : The Development of Top Incomes in Germany, 1907-2007
Anselmann, Christina - 2012
This paper examines the evolution of top incomes in Germany from 1907-2007 with a special focus on past decades. A more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101855