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Erfolgreich Altern : Lebensbedingungen in der Kindheit und soziale Ungleichheit haben großen Einfluss

Brandt, Martina; Deindl, Christian; Hank, Karsten - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 7, pp. 11-14

-life health ; childhood conditions ; social inequality ; SHARELIFE …

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Menschen mit hohem Einkommen leben länger

Kroh, Martin; Neiss, Hannes; Kroll, Lars; Lampert, Thomas - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 38, pp. 3-15

statistical correlation between income and life expectancy presents a challenge to those responsible for health policy in the … those from affluent households, reform of occupational safety standards and improvements in the promotion of health in the … workplace would make sense, as would behavior-related preventive measures and tailored health information campaigns that focus …

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The consequences of measurement error when estimating the impact of obesity on income

O’Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...

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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality

Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7

decomposition method using expenditure components and provide an empirical example with Japanese data. -- health inequality …

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Die Weitergabe von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und intellektuellen Fähigkeiten von Eltern an ihre Kinder

Anger, Silke - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 29, pp. 3-12

Die Studie untersucht für Deutschland, in welchem Ausmaß intellektuelle Fähigkeiten und Persönlichkeitsmerkmale von Eltern an ihre Kinder im Jugend- und jungen Erwachsenenalter weitergegeben werden. Auf Basis repräsentativer Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigt sich, dass...

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The influence of demographical and professional characteristics on managers’ risk taking propensity

Pavic, Ivan; Vojinic, Perica - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 171-184

The purpose of this paper is to determine in what way certain demographic and professional characteristics influence managerial risk taking. The research is conducted using the questionnaire on a sample of middle and top level managers employed in small, medium and large Croatian hospitality...

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La población dependiente en España : estimación del número y coste global asociado a su cuidado

Albarrán Lozano, Irene; Alonso González, Pablo - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 127-163

taken account data from the Survey on Disabilities, Impairments and Health Status and population forecasts estimated by INE …

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Immer mehr Menschen im Rentenalter sind berufstätig

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 6, pp. 3-12

, the working elderly are more satisfied than their non-working peers, which applies to health, income, and life in general …

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Subjective well-being and selected economic, demographic, and job factors in OECD countries

Marilou, Ioakimidis; Kiohos, Apostolos - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 71-81

residents in the happier OE CD countries were significantly higher on three factors-health, income, and the self … development of new measures of subjective-well being. -- income ; gender ; health ; longevity ; job characteristics …

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Old age pensions and retirement in Spain

Vegas Sánchez, Raquel; Argimón, Isabel; Botella, Marta; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 3, pp. 273-307

In this paper we analyze the influence that incentives play in the timing of the transition to retirement in Spain. We use the Continuous Sample of Working Histories 2006 (CSWH “Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales”, in Spanish) to construct incentive measures from the Social Security...

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