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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German Case

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016 - This version: April 2016

Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...

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The joint distribution of net worth and pension wealth in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2016

of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany. …

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Income and wealth poverty in Germany

Köhler, Theresa - 2016

bootstrap confidence intervals are calculated for all results. Findings suggest that young age, region East Germany, single … household member owns real estate or equity. In this thesis, at risk of income poverty in Germany is estimated. In order to get … of income poverty nor at risk of wealth poverty. Poverty profiles in Germany and their changes over time are analyzed for …

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Losing work, moving away? : regional mobility after job loss

Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa - 2016

Using German survey data, we investigate the relationship between involuntary job loss and regional mobility. Our results show that job loss has a strong positive effect on the propensity to relocate. We also analyze whether the high and persistent earnings losses of displaced workers can in...

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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio-economic causes

Dang, Rui - 2015

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany …

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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015

We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...

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The causal effect of paternal unemployment on children's personality

Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Corazzini, Luca - 2015

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a surprisingly positive causal effect on the "Big 5" personality traits of children aged 17 to 25. In particular, our results from longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest...

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