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Who buffers income losses after job displacement? : the role of alternative income sources, the family, and the state
Fackler, Daniel; Weigt, Eva - 2016
Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) this paper analyses to what extent alternative income sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed...
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Shared parenting and parents' income evolution after separation - new explorative insights from Germany
Boll, Christina; Schüller, Simone - 2021
'shared parenting (SP)' forms in Germany. Referring to the post-separation year, we build SP groups from information on child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587604
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Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
Existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has failed to address the question as to how the circumstances and choices of spouses in a couple should be treated. By omitting information relevant to the spouse in IOp estimations, the implicit assumption was full responsibility for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391624
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The distribution of economic resources to children in Germany
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2017
's resources in Germany between 2009 and 2013. It takes account of the multidimensionality of children's needs and access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638869
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Deindustrialization and the polarization of household incomes : the example of urban agglomerations in Germany
Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin - 2015
rural regions. The income polarization in Germany is likely to have multiple causes, some of which are directly linked to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519458
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Poverty profiles and well-being : panel evidence from Germany
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2015 - This version: February 2015
panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life …
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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification
Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs … from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can earn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007148
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Do rich parents enjoy children less?
Le Moglie, Marco; Mencarini, Letizia; Rapallini, Chiara - 2018
their first child less than low-income ones. In a low fertility country such as Germany, income seems therefore to matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823060
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Development of family income since the 1990s : a fresh look at German microdata using income-dependent equivalence scales
Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; Pehle, Sebastian; … - 2018
paper to assess how the ?nancial situation of families living in Germany has developed since the early 1990s. Among other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919611
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Life satisfaction, household income and personality theory
Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo - 2012
We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...
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