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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
prominent events - is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany. Main result: Individual and … satisfaction. This holds for pensioners (German pension insurance, GRV) but there is no significant effect at all for civil service … in Deutschland sind. Hauptergebnis: Individuelle und familiäre Faktoren erhöhen die Lebenszufriedenheit nach dem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912136
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266077
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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269659
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Sind Rentner zufriedener? Eine Panelanalyse von Antizipations- und Adaptionseffekten
Merz, Joachim - 2015
Deutschland insbesondere die Lebenszufriedenheit vor und nach einem markanten Ereignis, dem Renteneintritt, quantifizieren und … in Deutschland sind. … life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282680
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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994
based on a revealed preference consumption approach for West Germany and the United States. We review several approaches and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290104
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Equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption expenditure microdata: The case of West Germany
Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - 1992
Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expendituredata shows a variety of interesting results with regard to …-Mikrodaten offenbarter Präferenzen für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1983 vor. Es ist ein Teil eines amerikanisch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290122
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …Mikrodaten von Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten der Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) werden verwendet, um die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290126
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States … von Eltern-Kind Zeiten in unterschiedlichen Ländern mit differenten Wohlfahrtsregimes variiert: Finnland, Deutschland und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290473
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Poverty, secondary occupation and household production : empir. evidence for the Federal Republic of Germany
Klein, Thomas; Merz, Joachim; Wolff, Klaus - 1986
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000732884