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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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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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Health and well-being in the crisis

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...

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Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status : Are There Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?

Biewen, Martin - 2004

poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest … that even after controlling for observed and unobserved characteristics, past poverty experience increases the poverty risk … of future periods. Moreover, there is evidence that experiencing poverty has a negative effect on future employment …

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