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Towards a multidimensional poverty index for Germany

Suppa, Nicolai - 2015

This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual … consistent with earlier findings, but also reveal several new insights. Specifically, numerous decompositions of the poverty … multidimensional poverty indices. …

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Does capability deprivation hurt? : evidence from German panel data

Suppa, Nicolai - 2012

The present paper explores the link between poverty as capability deprivation and current life satisfaction. Using … achievements. The results indicate that poverty as capability deprivation reduces life satisfaction in a statistically and …. -- Subjective well-being ; life satisfaction ; capability approach ; poverty ; adaptation …

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The effect of compulsory service on life satisfaction and its channels

Collischon, Matthias; Eberl, Andreas; Jahn, Kerstin - 2018

Compulsory military service is still a prominent feature of young people's careers in many countries. We use the abolition of compulsory military and civil service for males in 2011 in Germany as a natural experiment to identify effects of institutionalized career disruptions on life...

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Care-arrangements and parental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Zoch, Gundula; Bächmann, Ann-Christin; Vicari, Basha - 2020

This study examines the short-term consequences for care-arrangements and resulting changes in well-being among parents, who were affected by the closure of schools and institutional child-care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. By applying multinomial logistic regression models to novel...

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Zur Dauer der Bedürftigkeit von Müttern : Dauer des Leistungsbezugs im SGB II und Ausstiegschancen

Lietzmann, Torsten - 2010

-parent-families differ according to poverty-risks and claiming of social benefits. The following paper examines mothers’ duration of … presence of two adults in the household. -- poverty ; unemployment benefit ; duration analysis …

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Assessing differences in household needs : a comparison of approaches for the estimation of equivalence scales using German expenditure data

Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Schmied, Julian - 2017

of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … estimate are close to the modified OECD scale. Calculating the Gini coefficient, we find that the at-risk-of-poverty rate and … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …

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Taxing education in Ramsey's tradition

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2009

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey's Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. Furthermore, if the earnings function displays constant elasticity, the...

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Does height affect labor supply? : implications of product variety and caloric needs

Micheli, Martin - 2015

The positive correlation between hourly wages and height, which results in higher labor supply of tall individuals, is well-documented in the literature. Accepting the utilitarian perspective and assuming that height does not affect utility implies that linking income taxes to height is welfare...

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Optimal taxation of education with an initial endowment of human capital

Braun, Christoph - 2010

Bovenberg and Jacobs (2005) and Richter (2009) derive the education efficiency theorem: In a second-best optimum, the education decision is undistorted if the function expressing the stock of human capital features a constant elasticity with respect to education. I drop this assumption. The...

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Pension incentives and labor supply : evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK

Giesecke, Matthias; Jäger, Philipp - 2020

We study the labor supply effects and welfare implications of introducing a universal means-tested old-age assistance program in times of very limited social protection. We take advantage of a unique historical reform: The Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided...

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