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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty: Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP ; German Evidence

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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Measuring vulnerability to poverty using long-term panel data

Landau, Katja; Klasen, Stephan; Zucchini, Walter - 2012

We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and … vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and … high mobility in and out of poverty. …

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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...

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The distribution of well-being among Europeans

Brandolini, Andrea; Rosolia, Alfonso - 2019

terms of poverty reduction. It also shows that the patterns of income convergence across member states differ across …

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Representative Wealth Data for Germany from the German SOEP: The Impact of Methodological Decisions around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva M. - 2007

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata requires a wide range of more or less normative assumptions. However, the decisions made in both the pre- and post-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the...

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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2009

Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic inequality. As an alternative to existing measures, we propose a predicted wage approach based...

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Behind the Curtain: The Within-Household Sharing of Income

Elsas, Susanne - 2011

The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction...

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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Data

Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011

In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....

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A satisfaction-driven poverty indicator: A bustle around the poverty line

Juhász, Andos - 2012

Poverty line definitions in use often lack a solid scientific foundation. This paper proposes to exploit data on income … satisfaction to construct an evidence-based poverty line. The poverty line is identified by using its assumed unique property to …-Economic Panel yields a temporally stable poverty line similar to the definition provided by the Statistical Office of the European …

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