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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
How long do people want to live, and how does scientific research on aging affect such desires? A dual-source information model proposes that aging expectations and desires are informed differently by two sources: personal experiences on the one hand, and scientific and societal influences on the other. Two studies with independent German national samples explored desires regarding length of life and ...
In:
The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
62 (2007), 5, S. 268-276
| Frieder R. Lang, Paul B. Baltes, Gert G. Wagner
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
In Germany, processes can be observed that have long been out of keeping with the principle of equality of opportunity. Unemployment is concentrated in the structurally weak peripheral areas, in Eastern Germany in particular; emigration of young and better-educated people to the West is not diminishing, but contrary to expectation is again on the increase; aging processes have set in already, and when ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
83 (2007), 2, S. 283-307
| Annette Spellerberg, Denis Huschka, Roland Habich
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Diskussionspapiere 733 / 2007
Objectives - Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, we investigate linkages between volunteer work, informal helping, and caring among Europeans aged 50 or older: Is the relationship between these activities characterized by complementarity or by substitution? Is there evidence for the existence of (unobserved) personality traits that foster engagement independent of a specific activity? ...
2007| Karsten Hank, Stephanie Stuck
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
The German and Australian longitudinal surveys analysed here are the first national representative surveys to show that (1) people who continuously own a pet are the healthiest group and (2) people who cease to have a pet or never had one are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they were open to the objection that owners may ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
80 (2007), 2, S. 297-311
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka
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Diskussionspapiere 689 / 2007
Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured patients than for statutorily insured patients. This price variation creates incentives to induce demand primarily among the privately ...
2007| Hendrik Jürges
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Diskussionspapiere 673 / 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 income in a dynamic framework. This finding holds after controlling for other influential factors in a multivariate ...
2007| Conchita D'Ambrosio, Joachim R. Frick
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Diskussionspapiere 686 / 2007
This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental well-being on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure chil-dren's health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physi-cal disabilities, hospitalizations, and ...
2007| Annalena Dunkelberg, C. Katharina Spieß
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SOEPpapers 7 / 2007
This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure children's health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physical disabilities, hospitalizations, and preterm ...
2007| Annalena Dunkelberg, C. Katharina Spieß
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SOEPpapers 8 / 2007
Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured patients than for statutorily insured patients. This price variation creates incentives to induce demand primarily among the privately ...
2007| Hendrik Jürges
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SOEPpapers 9 / 2007
2007| Klaus-Dirk Henke, Hanfried H. Andersen, Markus M. Grabka