This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...

Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 and 2014 to estimate quasi- causal supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes,...

This volume addresses the most important issues of the ongoing discussion on designing social security. It provides fundamental results for pay-as-you-go social security, covers the issues of social security during demographic transition and examines the inclusion of risk aspects into the...

Grundbegriffe, zentrale Modelle und Methoden der Sozialstrukturanalyse werden in dieser Einführung erklärt. Dabei werden die beiden zentralen Themenfelder "Bevölkerung" und "soziale Ungleichheit" umfassend behandelt sowie der Zusammenhang zwischen der Sozialstruktur und grundlegenden...