This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and withingroup components as well...

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well·being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the...

Die Ungleichheit der verfügbaren Einkommen in Deutschland ist nach dem Höhepunkt im Jahr 2005 leicht zurückgegangen. Diese Tendenz hat sich jedoch zuletzt - im Jahr 2011 - nicht weiter fortgesetzt. Maßgeblich dafür war die wieder gestiegene Ungleichheit der Markteinkommen und hier unter...

Die Menschen in Deutschland sind heute im Durchschnitt zufriedener als zu jedem anderen Zeitpunkt nach der Wiedervereinigung. In Ostdeutschland liegt das Niveau der Zufriedenheit jedoch auch mehr als 20 Jahre nach der Wiederbereinigung noch unter dem westdeutschen Niveau. Das zeigen die...

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well‐being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down...

Inequality of disposable incomes in Germany has decreased slightly since its peak in 2005. However, this trend did not continue in 2011. The most important reasons for this were the inequality in market incomes, including capital incomes, which had increased again. Besides this finding, the...

The real disposable income of private households in Germany, accounting for inflation, rose by 12 percent between 1991 and 2014. This is what the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has shown. However, the trends varied greatly depending on income group. While the...

Die verfügbaren Einkommen der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland sind von 1991 bis 2014 real, also unter Berücksichtigung der Preisentwicklung, um zwölf Prozent gestiegen. Das zeigt die vorliegende Studie, die auf Daten der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) basiert. Die...

This paper demonstrates spatial evaluation methods on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study using geo-coordinates and spatially relevant indicators from remote sensing data. By geocoding the addresses of private households (while not identifying them by name and while...