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Sozialkapital aus investitionstheoretischer Sicht (Dissertation)

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der partiellen Rangdatenanalyse in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung – Untersuchungen zu sozialen Netzwerken und Hilfeleistungen –

Pflegebedürfnisse werden zum erheblichen Teil durch professionelle Dienste befriedigt. Ein wichtiger Eckpfeiler in der pflegerischen Versorgung stellen darüber hinaus familiäre Beziehungen wie Partner und Kinder, sowie Freundes- und Nachbarschaftsnetzwerke dar. Diese Ressourcen stehen aber nicht allen Personen gleichermaßen zur Verfügung, sondern sind in der Bevölkerung ungleich verteilt. Wir beschäftigen ...

Die Mär vom Auswandern

Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance: Evidence from Germany

To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in 1994. In addition, effective 1996, consumers gained the freedom to choose among hundreds of existing health plans, across employers and state-borders. This paper (a) estimates RAS pass-through rates on ...

Altersarmut und Altersvorsorge in Deutschland

Nettoeinkommenseffekte steigender Beitragssätze zur Sozialversicherung – Eine empirisch fundierte Modellrechnung für verschiedene Haushaltskonstellationen (Kurzstudie für die Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM))

Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl scheint die Frage der nachhaltigen Finanzierbarkeit der gesetzlichen Sozialversicherung aus dem Blick zu geraten. In der Öffentlichkeit dominieren Vorschläge für Leistungsausweitungen, zum Beispiel zugunsten eines höheren Sicherungsniveaus in der Gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung. Der Blickwinkel ist dabei stark von der Sorge vor steigenden Armutsrisiken im Alter geprägt. ...

Intergenerational Effects of Economic Distress: Paternal Unemployment and Child Secondary Schooling Decisions

Economic crises are particularly detrimental if they affect next-generation human capital. This paper investigates how paternal unemployment affects children’s educational attainment, using variation in the local unemployment rate to identify the unemployment effect. To this end, I match German representative household data with labor market information on 97 regions for the years 1998-2009. Paternal ...

Predicting Experimental Choice Behavior and Life Outcomes from a Survey Measure of Present Bias

Using a representative sample of the German adult population, this paper investigates the extent to which a survey measure of present bias predicts present-biased choice behavior in incentive-compatible experiments and real-world outcomes related to investments in financial assets and human capital. The results are threefold. First, the survey and experimental measures of present bias are significantly ...

Changes of Life Satisfaction in the Transition to Retirement: A Latent-Class Approach

Contradictory positions have been advanced as to whether retirement has negative, positive, or no effects on subjective well-being. The authors investigated changes in life satisfaction in 1,456 German retirees. Using latent growth mixture modeling, the authors found 3 groups of people who experienced retirement differently. In Group 1, satisfaction declined at retirement but continued on a stable ...

Change of Leisure Satisfaction in the Transition to Retirement: A Latent-Class Analysis

This study analyzes patterns of change in leisure satisfaction in the transition to retirement in 1,456 German retirees. Using latent growth mixture modeling, three patterns are identified. The largest subgroup shows a linear increase in leisure satisfaction during the four years prior to retirement and in the first months of retirement, followed by stability thereafter. Two smaller groups show no ...