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Income groups and types of employment in Germany since 1995
Krause, Peter; Franz, Christian; Fratzscher, Marcel - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 27, pp. 267-278
the mid-1990s, inequality in disposable household income in Germany has generally increased. This trend was in effect …This report examines how income groups and forms of employment in Germany have changed in the past two decades. Since … wages in the income groups below the median rose steadily during the two decades studied. At the same time, in 2014–15 more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011675336
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita … value judgment that inequality and insecurity do not matter, the paper demonstrates that a better measure of “command over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction
Hajek, André - 2013
This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational autonomy or employment status and also the mentioned life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209215
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308598
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312724
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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Fleche, Sarah - 2015
, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016269
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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Fleche, Sarah - 2015
, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016868
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Employed but still unhappy? : on the relevance of the social work norm
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826714
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Nickel and dimed German style : the working poor in Germany
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009
" phenomenon in Germany remains relatively small and statistically unchanged by the Hartz reforms. -- Income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861434