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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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Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...
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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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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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on affordability measure has little overlap with the existing literature on poverty measurement. A comprehensive … relative to income or an absolute or relative income poverty line fare well from a dynamic perspective. …
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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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In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
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This paper describes the potential of analysing socio-economic inequalities in life expectancy using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP). It includes a short review on available data sources and recent evidence on inequalities in life expectancy for Germany. Subsequently the...
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. Second, poverty scars: those who have been … poor in the past report lower life satisfaction today, even when out of poverty. Last, the order of poverty spells matters …
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We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …
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