SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …

Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can …Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … than those for the US. However, based on highly comparable data, even a reasonable degree of variation in the sampling …

occur in the economy. Applying this approach to investigate rank volatility in Germany and the US over three decades, we …

mostly named factors influencing subjective well-being. The goal of the empirical study for Germany is twofold: First of all … empirical results presented in this paper are mainly based on yearly longitudinal data of private households in Germany …

Netherlands and the German Socio-Economic Panel. Instrumenting individual happiness with regional sunshine, the results suggest …

decision on nuclear power phase-out on several measures of subjective perception in Germany. In the light of current political …