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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German Case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016 - This version: April 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
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Income and wealth poverty in Germany
Köhler, Theresa - 2016
household member owns real estate or equity. In this thesis, at risk of income poverty in Germany is estimated. In order to get … of income poverty nor at risk of wealth poverty. Poverty profiles in Germany and their changes over time are analyzed for … bootstrap confidence intervals are calculated for all results. Findings suggest that young age, region East Germany, single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530284
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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons
Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015
criteria to measuring inequality of opportunity in Germany. We illustrate our ex-post inequality of opportunity approach based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376911
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Parental child care time, income, and subjective well-being : a multidimensional polarization approach for Germany
Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019
Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975532
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Equality of opportunity : East vs. West Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391647
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Assessing the distributional impact of "imputed rent" and "non-cash employee income" in microdata : case studies based on EU-SILC (2004) and SOEP (2002)
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007 - This version: 3 January 2007
There is general agreement about the importance of integrating non-monetary income components into cash-based income measures in order to improve the comparability of distribution results across time and space. Based on micro-data from the first round of EU-SILC (EU Statistics on Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628620
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Armut in Deutschland : Bevölkerungsgruppen unterhalb der Alg II-Grenze
Becker, Irene - 2007
Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die Ermittlung von Größe und Struktur der Bevölkerung in Deutschland mit Einkommen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628622
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Individual well-being in a dynamic perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - 2007 - This version: February 2007
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628625
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Keeping up with the Schmidts : an empirical test of relative deprivation theory in the neighbourhood context
Knies, Gundi; Burgess, Simon M.; Propper, Carol - 2007
We test empirically whether people's life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628853
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Time and income poverty : an interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009
multinomial logit based on time use diary data of the German Time Use Study 2001/02. One striking result for Germany: the … herausragendes Ergebnis für Deutschland: Substitution zwischen Zeit und Einkommen ist signifikant und wir finden einen hohen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635771