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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness and the Role of Income and Wealth
Pestel, Nico; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
analyze the role of wealth, in addition to income, as one dimension of multidimensional well-being. In addition we analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273138
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Extending the empirical basis for wealth inequality research using statistical matching of administrative and survey data
Rasner, Anika; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2011
Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual …'s lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses … German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a population representative panel study, with information on social security wealth from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826700
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Institutionelle Determinanten der Erwerbsarbeit : zur Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Holst, Elke - 2001
Institutionen werden in diesem Beitrag als Regeln menschlichen Handelns begriffen. Im einzelnen geht es um eine Analyse der in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften angewandten Regeln zur Untersuchung individueller Erwerbsentscheidungen (rational choice Ansatz), um Regeln, die in Form von...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433982
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The Effect of Poverty on the Health of Newborn Children - Evidence from Germany
Tamm, Marcus - 2014
This paper analyses the association between health outcomes of newborn children and mother's poverty status during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061807
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Empirical essays on the long-term consequences of early infant conditions for health, productivity, and family formation
Walliczek, Katharina - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123115
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Effects of regional meteorological and air conditions on community-acquired pneumonia: Examining the interaction of individual, meteorological, and air characteristics
Brenner, Thomas; Link, Ann-Christine; Reudenbach, Christoph - 2022
Climate change will further increase not only the frequency but also the intensity of extreme weather events. As a result, weather conditions favouring pneumonia occurrence - suddenly warmer weather during cold seasons - can increase due to higher meteorological variability which is also linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278466
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Internet use and subjective well-being in China
Nie, Peng; Nimrod, Galit; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, we analyze the association between Internet use and various measures of subjective well-being (SWB) in a sample of 16- to 60- year-old Chinese. Our analysis shows that although intensive Internet use is significantly associated with lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325811
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Reducing vehicle cold start emissions through carbon pricing : evidence from Germany
Frondel, Manuel; Marggraf, Clemens; Sommer, Stephan; … - 2021
A large proportion of local pollutants originating from the road transport sector is generated during the so-called cold-start phase of driving, that is, the first few minutes of driving after a car has stood inactive for several hours. Drawing on data from the German Mobility Panel (MOP), this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800443
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Effects of regional meteorological and air conditions on community-acquired pneumonia - examining the interaction of individual, meteorological, and air characteristics
Brenner, Thomas; Link, Ann-Christine; Reudenbach, Christoph - CAPNETZ study group - 2022
Climate change will further increase not only the frequency but also the intensity of extreme weather events. As a result, weather conditions favouring pneumonia occurrence - suddenly warmer weather during cold seasons - can increase due to higher meteorological variability which is also linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173741
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Measurement of health, the sensitivity of the concentration index, and reporting heterogeneity
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2009
Using representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure. The highest degree of inequality is found when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872912