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of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany. …
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Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood. This study moved beyond the typical consideration of health predictors and explored the role of social...
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and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …
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The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the...
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This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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-occupied housing) have become increasingly important sources of economic inequality in Germany over the last two decades. Whereas the … effects to increase over time. The analyses presented here, exemplified for Germany, make a clear case for the joint …
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Well-being is often relatively stable across adulthood and old age, but typically exhibits pronounced deteriorations and vast individual differences in the terminal phase of life. However, the factors contributing to these differences are not well understood. Using up to 25-year annual...
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panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life …
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We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use …
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