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Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

Sierminska, Eva; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008

evidence for a significant gender wealth gap of about 30,000 euros in Germany, which amounts to almost 50,000 euros for married … partners. Decomposition analyses reveal that this gap is mostly driven by differences in characteristics between men and women … appear to be driven mostly by the wealth function, i.e., the way in which women transform their characteristics into wealth. …

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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011

Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859059

Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?

Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011

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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Reforming family taxation in Germany : labor supply vs. insurance effects

Fehr, Hans; Kallweit, Manuel; Kindermann, Fabian - 2013

The present paper quantifies the economic consequences of eliminating the system of income splitting in Germany. We …

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Towards a theory of life satisfaction : accounting for stability, change and volatility in 25-year life trajectories in Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2016

An adequate theory of Life Satisfaction (LS) needs to take account of both factors that tend to stabilise LS and those that change it. The most widely accepted theory in the recent past – set-point theory – focussed solely on stability (Brickman and Campbell, 1971; Lykken and Tellegen, 1996)....

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Parent transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children : a lifelong happiness divided?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for "children" who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of...

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Individual well-being in a dynamic perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2007 - This version: February 2007

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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Private retirement savings in Germany : the structure of tax incentives and annuitization

Fehr, Hans; Habermann, Christian - 2008

-favored retirement accounts in Germany in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor …

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Alternative values-based "recipes" for life satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication

Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...

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