life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

link. Children's health behaviour and the health accumulated over the life course appear as important channels. The …

Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for … categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate … health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use …

health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using … persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for … birth outcomes for the third generation. The results show that all of the persistence in mortality is transmitted solely via …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have … coefficient coincides with increasing social stress. If the aim of public policy is to improve public health and increase social …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … leads to a 12% decline in the probability of death. We find a large role for unobserved health shocks, with 5-years of …

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … ; unemployment ; kernel density estimation …

inequality observed in Germany between 1992 and 2007, using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) database, deriving the …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …