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In this study, we argue that parents’ class position may influence the type and timing of their offspring's investments in financial assets. These investments may facilitate net worth accumulation beyond direct transfers, contributing to the intergenerational reproduction of social positions. We test these expectations using retrospective life history and prospective panel data for 14 countries ...
In:
Acta Sociologica
66 (2023), 2, 210–230
| Philipp M Lersch, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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The assumption that economic resources are equally shared within households has been found to be untenable for income but is still often upheld for wealth. In this introduction to the special issue “Wealth in Couples”, we argue that within-household inequality in wealth is a pertinent and under-researched area that is ripe for development. To this end, we outline the relevance of wealth for demographic ...
In:
European Journal of Population
38 (2022), 4, 623-641
| Philipp M. Lersch, Emanuela Struffolino, Agnese Vitali
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Die meisten kennen sie gut, die Zeitfresser im Alltag: Manche von ihnen rächen sich auf lange Sicht.
In:
Frankfurter Allgemeine online, 2023-02-28
(2023),
| Ina Lockhart
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Self-continuity, the sense that one’s personal past, present, and future selves are meaningfully connected, is unique to human beings. Self-continuity varies across individuals with higher levels conveying benefits for mental health and well-being, physical health and health-related behaviors, as well as financial planning and moral choices (for a review see Hershfield, 2019). From a developmental ...
In:
Innovation in Aging
4 (2020), Suppl 1, 390-391
| Corinna Loeckenhoff, Denis Gerstorf
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On their journeys to and through Europe, refugees and other migrants are commonly subjected to violence in its multifaceted forms. We argue that these “journeys of violence” are a direct effect of a fundamentally uneven and asymmetric global mobility regime that creates frictions and fragmentations in the European border space and beyond. Our argument is based on: (1) a state-of-the-art literature ...
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Comparative Population Studies
47 (2022), 211-232
| Rahel Lorenz, Benjamin Etzold
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Existing research on housing cost burden focuses on its evolution over time. Few empirical studies, meanwhile, investigate changes in housing cost burden as a function of age. Literature is also scarce on how people's housing cost burden is affected by the act of retiring. In order to fill this research gap, we examine how the burden of housing costs tends to change after retirement and how the ...
In:
Ageing & Society
45 (2025), 1, 1–30
| Alberto Lozano Alcántara, Laura Romeu Gordo, Heribert Engstler, Claudia Vogel
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Der Begriff „Einsamkeit“ ist in der deutschen Alltagssprache unscharf definiert und wird für unterschiedliche Phänomene verwendet. Für eine wissenschaftliche und politische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema ist es daher notwendig, diesen Begriff klar zu definieren und von anderen, verwandten Konzepten abzugrenzen. Diese Expertise gibt zunächst einen Überblick über die in der heutigen sozialwissenschaftlichen ...
Frankfurt/Main:
ISS Kompetenznetzwerk Einsamkeit,
2022,
(KNE Expertise 1)
| Maike Luhmann
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This paper analyzes how people’s subjective well-being adapts to income poverty in Switzerland and Germany and presents two empirical findings. First, financial satisfaction (FS) does not adapt in either country. However, life satisfaction fully adapts in Switzerland but not in Germany. Second, people in income poverty have income lower than their reference income. In the long run, those who remain ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
23 (2022), 6, 2491-2516
| Jianbo J. Luo
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The assumption of stable non-cognitive skills is important in the economic literature. This paper proposes to test this assumption by investigating whether a specific non-cognitive skill, locus of control, is stable after the occurrence of a health-related event, namely a hospital stay. To do so, we use a representative and longitudinal dataset of individuals living in Germany (SOEP). Our results show ...
In:
De Economist
170 (2022), 2, 257-277
| Antoine Marsaudon
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Durch die derzeit hohen Inflationsraten hat die öffentliche Debatte um die kalte Progression wieder Fahrt aufgenommen: Steigen die Verbraucherpreise stärker als das nominale Bruttoeinkommen, unterliegen Steuerzahler*innen über den progressiven Einkommensteuertarif höheren marginalen und durchschnittlichen Steuerbelastungen. Um ungewollte steuerliche Mehrbelastungen abzufedern, hat der Bundestag im ...
In:
ifo Schnelldienst
76 (2023), 2, 3-36
| Maximilian Blömer, Florian Dorn, Clemens Fuest, Matthias Warneke, Martin Beznoska, Tobias Hentze, Björn Kauder, Robin Jessen, Torsten Schmidt, Nadine Riedel, Gisela Färber, Gunter Mayr, Dénes Kucsera, Hanno Lorenz