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The development of multidimensional poverty in Germany 1985 - 2007

Busch, Christopher; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

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The impact of home production on economic inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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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...

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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2003

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Income satisfaction is the subjective analogue of the objective income concept and includes...

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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Biewen, Martin - 2002

persistence of transitory shocks and their implications for the persistence of poverty and income inequality. The results suggest … poor individuals stayed in poverty for two years on average. In East Germany, the contribution of the permanent component … to overall income inequality increased from 20 percent in 1990 to over 70 percent in 1998 and the persistence of poverty …

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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty

Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...

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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

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Boon or bane? Others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model Appraisal

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2001

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...

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