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inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …
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This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the...
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Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...
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post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …
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-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing … choice of method. Although the substantive notion of reduced inequality is stable, the degree of variation in our findings …
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-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … alternative private investments, our results indicate that they do not coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other …
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German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) we analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, inequality of income) by comparing …, significant differences between these two subsamples with respect to (income) inequality are found in the first year, which start …
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This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after …
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definition of the aggregation unit and by controlling its effect on distribution and inequality analysis. We find empirical …
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Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the U.S., the answer is...
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