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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen; Schluter, Christian - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...

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Life course risks, mobility regimes, and mobility consequences : a comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S.

DiPrete, Thomas A. - 2001

Intragenerational mobility has been a central concern in sociology, especially in the latter half of the 20th century. Most of this analysis has proceeded using measures of social position that are functions of an individual's occupation. This approach has been based on two primary...

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Self-employment dynamics across the business cycle : migrants versus natives

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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Location, location, location : extracting location value from house prices

Kolbe, Jens; Schulz, Rainer; Wersing, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2012

The price for a single-family house depends both on the characteristics of the building and on its location. We propose a novel semiparametric method to extract location values from house prices. After splitting house prices into building and land components, location values are estimated with...

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Keeping up with the Schmidts : an empirical test of relative deprivation theory in the neighbourhood context

Knies, Gundi (contributor); Burgess, Simon M. (contributor); … - 2007

We test empirically whether people’s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory...

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Fairness of public pensions and old-age poverty

Breyer, Friedrich (contributor); Hupfeld, Stefan (contributor) - 2008

In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims...

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Health care expenditures and longevity : is there a Eubie Blake effect?

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012

due to the fact that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. As a consequence …, rising longevity - through falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies … over the period 1997-2009. Using (dynamic) panel data models, we find that age, mortality and five-year survival rates have …

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Income and longevity revisited : do high-earning women live longer?

Breyer, Friedrich; Marcus, Jan - 2010

analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …

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Longevity, life-cycle behavior and pension reform

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2011

How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking...

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Life expectancy and health care expenditures : a new calculation for Germany using the costs of dying

Breyer, Friedrich (contributor); Felder, Stefan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

mortality risk to higher ages will not affect lifetime health care expenditures as death occurs only once in every life. We … life and for survivors, which we apply to the projections of the age structure and mortality rates for the German …

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