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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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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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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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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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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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alternative private investments, our results indicate that they do not coincide in their impacts on income inequality and poverty … inequality and relative poverty, very much driven by the increasing share of outright ownership among the elderly. On the other … consideration of all components of private investment income for the purpose of welfare analysis, be they of a monetary or non …
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This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland...
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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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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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, our findings may also be most relevant for comparative analyses across welfare-regimes …
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