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The dynamics of child poverty : Britain and Germany compared

Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000 - Revised November 2000

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-7. Compared to Germany, in Britain poverty …

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Parent transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children : a lifelong happiness divided?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for "children" who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...

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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of multi-indicator constellations of physical health and psychosocial correlates

Brandmaier, Andreas M.; Ram, Nilam; Wagner, Gert G.; … - 2017

Well-being is often relatively stable across adulthood and old age, but typically exhibits pronounced deteriorations and vast individual differences in the terminal phase of life. However, the factors contributing to these differences are not well understood. Using up to 25-year annual...

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Levels of and changes in life satisfaction predict mortality hazards : disentangling the role of physical health, perceived control, and social orientation

Hülür, Gizem; Heckhausen, Jutta; Hoppmann, Christiane A. - 2017

It is well-documented that well-being typically evinces precipitous decrements at the end of life. However, research has primarily taken a postdictive approach by knowing the outcome (date of death) and aligning in retrospect how well-being has changed for people with documented death events. In...

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Worries across time and a ge in Germany : bringing together open- and close-ended questions

Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which …

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Worries across time and age in Germany : bringing together open and close-ended questions

Rohrer, Julia M.; Bruemmer, Martin; Schupp, Jürgen; … - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which …

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Alternative values-based "recipes" for life satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication

Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2002

the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey …

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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called "ethnic Germans" who migrated from … eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German …. About one half of the immigrants who entered Germany since 1984 are ethnic Germans. Thus, any analysis of the living …

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