A population's standard of living has a special and important place in the concept of human development. Ultimately, the higher the standard of living of a population, the greater the chance for real human development, other things being equal. The standard of living in its most general sense is...

This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show that reductions of excessive levels of working hours did improve family well-being in the past decade. Moreover, benefits from major life events...

A population's standard of living has a special and important place in the concept of human development. Ultimately, the higher the standard of living of a population, the greater the chance for real human development, other things being equal. The standard of living in its most general sense is...

Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological and economic standards of living of a population are very different concepts, they are linked and may empirically move together. If this is so, then cohort heights can also be...

This paper presents new series of real wages for male farmers and construction workers in France from 1250 to 1860. Between the first half of the thirteenth century and the mid-nineteenth century real wages displayed no substantial trend improvement. Even in the post-Black Death period, after a...

Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a trajectory with long-run satiation. Instead, he will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a...

Die mexikanische Landbevölkerung leidet unter extremer Armut, Marginalisierung, Ernährungsunsicherheit und Schädigung der natürlichen Ressourcen. Diese Arbeit zielt darauf ab, zu verstehen, wie Familien ihre Vermögenswerte (Assets) verwalten, um ihre Lebensbedingungen zu verbessern. Dies...

Die Bundestagswahl 2017 wirft ihre Schatten voraus. Das kommt auch in den unterschiedlichen Argumenten zur gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung zum Ausdruck, die die Vertreter der verschiedenen Parteien und Interessengruppen derzeit in den Medien vortragen. Jochen Pimpertz hat drei aktuelle Fragen...

It is well known that both income and wealth are important determinants of house-holds’ economic well-being. Inequality in economic well-being of households as measured by income or earnings is very well documented, and differences in income between women and men have received wide attention...

This article presents for the first time a comparative study of the cost of disability for households in 31 European countries. In order to do so, we exploit the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, its special module on housing conditions for 2007 and 2012 and employ two...

Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...

Armutsgefährdung hängt stark von regionalen Wirtschaftsstrukturen und Lebensverhältnissen ab, wie die Analyse der einkommensbezogenen Armutsquote und des Abschneidens im Regionalranking der IW Consult für die 402 deutschen Kreise zeigt. Eine Anti-Armutspolitik setzt deshalb am besten auf...

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role of...

This article presents for the first time a comparative study of the cost of disability for households in 31 European countries. In order to do so, we exploit the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, its special module on housing conditions for 2007 and 2012 and employ two...

Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...