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Immigrant Fertility in Germany: The Role of Culture
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185781
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Immigrant fertility in Germany: The role of culture
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014
This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … and in different years. The variation in total fertility rates (TFRs) across countries and over time serves as a proxy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464372
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Monitoring Subjective Well-Being: Some New Empirical Evidence for Germany
Oltmanns, Erich; Braakmann, Albert; Schmidt, Joachim - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
What is subjective well-being influenced by? Since the Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress by Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi a huge number of studies has raised this question - with partly different findings. In addition, international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942874
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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600872
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601067
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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional Insights on the pattern of convergence
Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282365
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399076
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Are retirees more satisfied? Anticipation and adaptation effects: A causal panel analysis of German statutory insured and civil service pensioners
Merz, Joachim - 2022
This study contributes to the subjective well-being and retirement literature by quantifying life satisfaction before (4) and after retirement (9+) periods asking: Are retirees more satisfied? Fixed-effects and causal instrumental variables (IV) estimates with individual longitudinal data of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171674
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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527284
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The effect of local crime on well-being: Evidence for Germany
Krekel, Christian; Poprawe, Marie L. - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of local crime on well-being in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a novel data set constructed from official police crime statistics, covering both counties and urban districts for the time period between 1994 and 2012. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397737