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The extant literature regarding the effects of housing on stock investment shows inconsistent findings, either positive … or negative effects have been reported. This paper investigates the mechanisms by which housing affects household stock … and quantify the magnitudes of contemporaneous "wealth effects" and "crowd-out effects" of housing on household equity …
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Contemporary demographic processes forcing increasing attention to the problems of relationships and dependencies between the different age groups. The ageing of the population in each society leads to changes in the contacts between young people, adults and the elderly. It is reasonable to...
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Das private Immobilienvermögen in Deutschland verdoppelte sich in den vergangenen 20 Jahren auf 6 Billionen Euro. Mit gut der Hälfte am Privatvermögen stellt es weiterhin die wichtigste Anlageklasse dar. Das Immobilienvermögen ist analog zu anderen Vermögenspositionen ungleich zwischen...
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This paper examines determinants of the agrarian structure in transition economies with an emphasis on the role of rural households’ human capital. Farm restructuring has resulted in a broad range of farm types, such as co-operatives, partnerships, individual farms and combinations of them. In...
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This paper investigates which socio-economic and demographic factors influence the demand for digital access to financial services. For this purpose, customer data from all public savings banks in Germany are linked with socio-economic and demographic data at regional level. As a result,...
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Den Bürgern Lebensqualität zu bieten, zählt zu den essenziellen Aufgaben der Politik. Nun stellt sich aber nicht nur Kommunalpolitikern die Frage, was genau denn eigentlich die örtliche Lebensqualität ausmacht. Spontan fallen einem viele unterschiedliche Faktoren ein, aber welche sind den...
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This paper provides an analysis of socio-economic characteristics and their influence on farm and non-farm incomes of rural households in Slovenia. With the canonical correlation analysis we use a methodological approach that offers a true multivariate procedure for both sides of the equation....
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The paper deals with the effects of social participation activities on life satisfaction. Using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) for 2010, marginal effects of binary probit estimations on life satisfaction are presented. Strong gender differences are observable. While sport, welfare or...
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The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of...
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This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade politics in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African governments.
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