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Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Happiness and the persistence of income shocks

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2012

We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a novel two-step estimation procedure that allows applying instrumental variable regressions with ordinal observable data. As suggested by the theory of incomplete markets, we...

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The Income Portfolio of Immigrants in Germany - Effects of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation Or: Who Gains from Income Re-Distribution?

Frick, Joachim R.; Büchel, Felix - 2000

This paper deals with the economic performance of various population groups in Germany giving special attention to … immigrants are a very heterogeneous group with respect to their economic performance. The well-assimilated ?mixed? immigrants …-known poor market performance of immigrants. However, also immigrants´ non-market incomes are atypically low (except for those of …

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