The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income changes have short-term effects on political involvement,...

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 interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...

Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...

Traditionelle Wohlfahrtsanalysen, die sich alleine auf monetäre Einkommensangaben stützen, bedürfen der Erweiterung um die zeitliche Dimension, zumal auch in den vergangenen Jahren der Vollzeitarbeitstag anderen, flexibleren Arbeitszeitformen gewichen ist. Mit unserem Fokus auf die Frage, wer...

The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is still a topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets). This study will...

Valid and reliable individual time use data in connection with an appriate set of socio-economic background variables are essential elements of an empirical foundation and evaluation of existing time use theories and for the search of new empirical-based hypotheses about individual behavior....

Die Möglichkeiten der Zeitverwendungsforschung für die Analyse der Mediennutzung ist das Thema dieser Studie. Nach der Beschreibung von Studien zur Medianalyse wird die Zeitverwendungsforschung charakterisiert und die besondere Eignung ihrer zentralen Erhebungsinstrumente - stilisierte...

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...

It is common sense that (liberal) professions and entrepreneurs (tradesmen) as self-employed are rich by money and, because of their independence and time sovereignty, are rich by time, too. This study tries to shed empirically based light on the issue and the well-being situation of the...

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...