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Elder poverty in an ageing world: Conditions of social vulnerability and low income for women in rich and middle-income nations

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Gao, Qin; Saunders, Peter; Wing, Coady - 2008

Social vulnerability for older persons, especially older women, due to insufficient income in retirement and earlier in life and low market earnings may be attributable to many sources, both demographic and economic, in our globalizing world. This paper examines the problems of population...

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Life satisfaction and income inequality

Verme, Paolo - 2010

Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found evidence on a positive, negative or non significant...

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Polarisierung von Arbeitseinkommen im internationalen Vergleich: Empirische Befunde

Burmester, Iris; Scherg, Bettina - 2013

spezielle Form der Ungleichheit dar. Erst seit den neunziger Jahren entstanden neue Maße, die den Unterschied zwischen … Ungleichheit und Polarisierung berücksichtigen. Die Studien, die sich mit Einkommenspolarisierung befassen, beziehen sich auf die …

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Bildungspolitik versus Gesundheitspolitik: Evidenzbasierte Interventionen gegen soziale Ungleichheit in Gesundheit

Jürges, Hendrik - 2014

In Deutschland ist soziale Ungleichheit in Gesundheit kaum in der öffentlichen Diskussion, obwohl auch hier besser … andere. Soziale Ungleichheit wird dadurch entlang einer weiteren wichtigen Dimension verstärkt. In diesem Beitrag werden kurz … Ausmaß und Dimensionen derartiger Ungleichheit in Deutschland dargestellt. In Abgrenzung zur vorherrschenden …

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Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Krenz, Astrid - 2008

Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur aktuellen Bildungsdebatte und knüpft an die Theorie des Soziologen …, der Intelligenz und der Motivation ab. Des Weiteren quantifiziert diese Arbeit das Ausmaß, in dem Männer mehr als Frauen …

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Measuring Income in Household Panel Surveys for Germany: A Comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP

Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German...

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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection

Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a decade after reunification. For that purpose, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1999 - 2006, and implement the decomposition methodologies of...

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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos, Xavier - 2010

Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...

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Changes in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany during a Period of Rising Wage Inequality 1999-2006: Was it Discrimination in the Returns to Human Capital?

Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010

In this article I analyze the changes in the gender wage gap in the western region, eastern region and in reunified Germany during the period 1999 - 2006. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and implement two alternative decomposition methodologies; the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991)...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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