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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...
Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601027
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601067
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty: Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP ; German Evidence
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011
-Economic Panel) the individual poverty intensity of the active population is analysed for various regimes of multiple poverty. For …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 interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601053
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Behind the Curtain: The Within-Household Sharing of Income
Elsas, Susanne - 2011
developed and estimated using 10 waves (1999 to 2008) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Differences in financial … panel data allows us to account for unobserved heterogeneity at the household level, which is one major advancement of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601024
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlbefinden in Deutschland: Studie zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators
van Suntum, Ulrich; Prinz, Aloys; Uhde, Nicole - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600902
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Income mobility
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2013
We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327284
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The evolution of income inequality in Germany and Switzerland since the turn of the millennium
Grabka, Markus M.; Kuhn, Ursina - 2012
harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has …This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased only marginally and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287226
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Income Mobility
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128997
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The Evolution of Income Inequality in Germany and Switzerland since the Turn of the Millennium
Grabka, Markus M.; Kuhn, Ursina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has …This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … increased substantially during this period, in Switzerland inequality in market incomes has increased onlymarginally and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787003
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The Optimal Choice of a Reference Standard for Income Comparisons: Indirect Evidence from Immigrants' Return Visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
visit. Both predictions are confirmed on four waves of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The estimated marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600907