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Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany

Keese, Matthias - 2009

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …

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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health

Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010

employed individuals, and (c) lagged debt variables to rule out problems of reverse causality. We apply different measures of … precarious debt situation). We find all debt measures to be strongly correlated with health satisfaction, mental health, and … obesity. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and reversed causality we find evidence that household debt also causally …

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Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health

Keese, Matthias; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

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Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany

Keese, Matthias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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Kemptner, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a health process, the interaction between health and employment...

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Kemptner, Daniel - 2013

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Wealth creators or inheritors? Unpacking the gender wealth gap from bottom to top and young to old

Bartels, Charlotte; Sierminska, Eva; Schröder, Carsten - 2024

There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that...

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Does money change who you are? Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of wage increases on personality

Ayaita, Adam - 2022

Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...

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Wealth and its distribution in Germany, 1895-2018

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Bartels, Charlotte; Schularick, Moritz - 2022

German history over the past 125 years has been turbulent. Marked by two world wars, revolutions and major regime changes, as well as a hyperinflation and three currency reforms, expropriations and territorial divisions, it provides unique insights into the role of country-specific shocks in...

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Income comparisons, income formation, and subjective well-being: New evidence on envy versus signaling

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2013

Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...

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