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 pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

worries is more affected by ozone pollution. This was not the case for people with a bad health status. Using the marginal …

artists' job satisfaction. The analysis is based on panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP). Artists on … average are found to be considerably more satisfied with their work than non-artists, a finding that corroborates the …-employment rate among artists. Suggestive evidence is found that superior "procedural" characteristics of artistic work, such as …

-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across … exposure to a higher own-ethnic concentration impairs immigrant children's host-country language proficiency and increases … school dropout. A key mediating factor for this effect is parents' lower speaking proficiency in the host-country language …

certified language proficiency levels among refugees in Germany. The residence rule restricts initial residence for refugees with … that stricter statutory provisions have a positive effect on the probability to complete a language course and on the level … of certified language proficiency. The results indicate that this effect is driven partly by spatial mismatch. …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …