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The long-standing demographic East-West-divide in Germany

Klüsener, Sebastian; Goldstein, Joshua R. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

Over the last decades numerous studies have dealt with demographic differences between the former communist eastern part of Germany and western Germany. Although the demography of these two regions has converged with respect to mortality and overall fertility levels, non-marital births are the...

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Why do women in former communist countries look unhappy? A demographic perspective

Kageyama, Junji - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

This paper investigates the causes of the positive correlation between happiness and the sex gap in happiness between …. The mechanisms working behind are as follows. First, national average happiness affects the sex gap in life expectancy … gap in happiness negatively because it affects the chance of being a widow for women. Using a 3SLS approach, it found that …

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Assessing old-age long-term care using the concepts of healthy life expectancy and care duration: the new parameter "Long-Term Care-Free Life-Expectancy (LTCF)"

Scholz, Rembrandt D.; Schulz, Anne - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010

Achieving old ages is also connected with prevalence of illness and long-term care. With the introduction of the statutory long-term care insurance in 1996 and the long-term care statistics in 1999 research data of about 2.3 million people receiving long-term care benefits is available. Average...

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Zur Sterblichkeitsdifferenz von Männern im Ost-West-Vergleich

Scholz, Rembrandt D.; Schulz, Anne; Stegmann, Michael - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2010

Die Untersuchung der Sterblichkeit der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigten des Jahres 2004 deckt die Gründe für die Unterschiede der Lebenserwartung bei Männern im Ost-West-Vergleich auf. Es wird gezeigt, dass die bestehenden strukturellen Unterschiede des Arbeitsmarktes in Ost- und...

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Seasonal mortality in Denmark: the role of sex and age

Rau, Roland; Doblhammer, Gabriele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003

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Settlement size and fertility in the Nordic countries

Kulu, Hill; Vikat, Andres; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

There is a growing body of literature that looks at the causes of below-replacement fertility in developed countries. While the variation in childbearing patterns across countries and between socio-economic groups within a country has been studied in detail, little is known about the differences...

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Scheidung in Ost- und Westdeutschland: der Einfluss der Frauenerwerbstätigkeit auf die Ehestabilität

Böttcher, Karin - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

Dieser Beitrag vergleicht die Ehestabilität ost- und westdeutscher Frauen vor der Wiedervereinigung im Jahr 1990. Es wird untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß sich die Frauen beider Länder in Bezug auf das Risiko, eine erste Scheidung zu erfahren, unterschieden haben und auf welche Faktoren diese...

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Cohort fertility patterns in the Nordic Countries

Andersson, Gunnar; Rønsen, Marit; Knudsen, Lisbeth B.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

Previous analyses of period fertility suggest that the trends of the Nordic countries are sufficiently similar to speak of a common "Nordic fertility regime". We investigate whether this assumption can be corroborated by comparing cohort fertility patterns in the Nordic countries. We study...

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Does the socioeconomic mortality gradient interact with age? Evidence from US survey data and Danish register data

Hoffmann, Rasmus - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality decrease with age. Most research confirms this decrease but the reasons for it and the role of unobserved heterogeneity are unknown. The data used for our analysis come from the US...

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Lifetime earnings and life expectancy

Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Scholz, Rembrandt D. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

We estimate remaining life expectancy at age 65 using a very large sample of male German pensioners. Our analysis is entirely nonparametric. Furthermore, the data enable us to compare life expectancy in eastern and western Germany conditional on a measure of socio-economic status. Our findings...

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