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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600647
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
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Das Diskussionspapier thematisiert die objektive und subjektive Lebenslage von Arbeitslosen in Deutschland im Vergleich zur Gesamtbevölkerung. Die Ergebnisse indizieren eine deutlich schlechtere materielle, d. h. objektive Lebenslage der Arbeitslosen. Dies reflektiert sich in den auf...
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resources and the perception of social inequality in Germany will be picked out as a central theme. By means of empirical … findings it becomes clear that the degree of inequality and polarization with respect to the living conditions - both measured …
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's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses … distribution of individual net worth as well as overall inequality. The present value of pension entitlements (including … results based on net worth only, inequality of our amended wealth measure is about 25 percent less. Moreover, we present …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017428
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018693
resources and the perception of social inequality in Germany will be picked out as a central theme. By means of empirical … findings it becomes clear that the degree of inequality and polarization with respect to the living conditions - both measured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543461
Das Diskussionspapier thematisiert die objektive und subjektive Lebenslage von Arbeitslosen in Deutschland im Vergleich zur Gesamtbevölkerung. Die Ergebnisse indizieren eine deutlich schlechtere materielle, d. h. objektive Lebenslage der Arbeitslosen. Dies reflektiert sich in den auf...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543462