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Fiscal and Social Policy : Financing Long-Term Care in Germany
Götze, Ralf - 2014
This paper deals with the coverage of long-term care (LTC) in Germany since the post-war period. Until the 1990s, long-term care was mainly a task of the family with means-tested, tax-financed care assistance as a last resort. In 1994, after two decades of political debate, the German parliament...
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Measuring progress
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022
Societal progress is characterized primarily as an improvement in the distribution of wellbeing; however, a small set of additional variables are also necessary. Social indicators based on objective measures are inherently limited by the subjective assessments necessary of "experts" to select...
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Energy transition in Germany and regional spillovers : what triggers the diffusion of renewable energy in firms?
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2017
a unique database combining the Community Innovation Survey 2014 for Germany and NUTS 3 data on renewable energy plants … regulation, government subsidies for eco-innovation, high energy costs and regional knowledge spillovers contribute to a rapid …
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Pension wealth and the gender wealth gap
Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2021
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … data is available for 2012 only. Individual level wealth data allows to analyze the gender wealth gap between women and men … datasets where information on wealth as well as on pension entitlements is collected at the individual level. Pension wealth …
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Pension wealth and the gender wealth gap
Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2022
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … available in the SOEP for 2012 only. While the relative raw gender wealth gap is about 35% (or 31,000 euros) when analysing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373281
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Pension wealth and the gender wealth gap
Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2022
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … available in the SOEP for 2012 only. While the relative raw gender wealth gap is about 35% (or 31,000 euros) when analysing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013392164
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Demographic change and innovation : the ongoing challenge from the diversity of the labor force
Richter, Doreen - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 3, pp. 166-184
demographic change on innovation, captured on corporate and regional level, this means the relationship between diversity and … innovation variables is examined in a micro-economic and a macro-economic approach. The aim is to summarize and to highlight …
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Research Report : Findings from a Survey among the Stakeholders of the German Energy System
Rinscheid, Adrian; Kern, Natalie; Kachi, Aya - 2022
Given that coal combustion is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in many countries, and against the background of more ambitious efforts to mitigate climate change since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, coal mining and combustion have become increasingly contested. A...
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Wealth distribution within couples
Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio … partnership) that might explain this wealth gap. We find that all factors contribute to the explanation of the wealth gap within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195489
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Wealth distribution within couples
Grabka, Markus M.; Marcus, Jan; Sierminska, Eva - 2013
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the … distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German socio … partnership) that might explain this wealth gap. We find that all factors contribute to the explanation of the wealth gap within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538848