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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence

Merz, Joachim - 2011

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … of multidimensional poverty. In addition to various poverty gap measures including the multidimensional well-being gap …

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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income - Perceptions and Evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers : Are They Time and Income Multidimensional Poor? – The German Case

Merz, Joachim - 2016

poverty but also by considering time poverty within the framework of a new interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty … of 1991/92 and 2001/2 of the Federal Statistics Office provide the data to quantify the multidimensional poverty in all … interdependent multidimensional time and income poverty in both years are much more affected by time and income poverty than all …

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Time and Income Poverty - An Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty Approach with German Time Use Diary Data

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009

multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important … quantification we disentangle time, income and interdependent multidimensional poverty regimes characterising the working poor. In … addition, we quantify further socio-economic influences for each interdependent multidimensional poverty regime by a …

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Between-Person Disparities in the Progression of Late-Life Well-Being

Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth; Schupp, … - 2009

Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. In this chapter, we argue that focusing on a phase of life during which this positive picture does not necessarily prevail promises to help us better understand between-person disparities in the...

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The Social Comparison Scale : Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population

Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - 2011

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people’s opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Evolution, Scope and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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Are Retirees More Satisfied? – Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being : A Panel Analysis for Germany

Merz, Joachim - 2018

Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the “demographic change” with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern...

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Worries Across Time and Age in Germany : Bringing Together Open- and Close-Ended Questions

Rohrer, Julia - 2017

We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text format. We find that relevant world events influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked...

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Comparing the Predictive Power of Subjective and Objective Health Indicators : Changes in Handgrip Strength and Overall Satisfaction with Life as Predictors of Mortality

Ambrasat, Jens; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011

Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents’ objective health status. On the other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other socio-economic characteristics of the local...

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