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Widening inequalities in self-rated health by material deprivation? A trend analysis between 2001 and 2011 in Germany

Background: Research on inequalities in health has shown a strong association between the lack of standard of living (defined as material deprivation) and self-rated health (SRH). In this study, we sought to further examine this association in a trend analysis of relative and absolute inequalities in SRH as defined by material deprivation in Germany. Methods: Data were obtained from the German Socio-Economic ...

Wie kommt die Gesellschaft unter die Haut? Eine Mediatoranalyse gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit mit den Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels 2011

Hintergrund: Der Zusammenhang zwischen sozioökonomischem Status und Gesundheit wird größtenteils über eine ungleiche Verteilung materieller, psychosozialer und verhaltensbezogener Faktoren erklärt. Analysiert wird die relative Bedeutung dieser Determinanten für die Beziehung zwischen Einkommen und verschiedenen Gesundheitsoutcomes. Methode: Die Analysen basierten auf den Daten des „Sozioökonomischen ...

Lebensstandard und Gesundheit: Ein längsschnittlicher Blick in die individuelle Wohlfahrtsproduktion vor dem Hintergrund gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit

Der durch Peter Townsend begründete und durch Hans-Jürgen Andreß Mitte der 1990er Jahre in Deutschland eingeführte Lebensstandardansatz erfährt zunehmend Beachtung in der gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Forschung. Als Ergebnis der individuellen Ressourcenverwendung spiegelt der Lebensstandard unter anderem die lebenslaufspezifische Wohlfahrtsproduktion einer Person wider und erlaubt damit einen längsschnittlichen ...

In-Work Poverty and Self-Rated Health in a Cohort of Working Germans: A Hybrid Approach for Decomposing Within-Person and Between-Persons Estimates of In-Work Poverty Status

In this study, we investigated whether self-rated health (SRH) can be predicted by in-work poverty and how between-persons and within-person differences in the poverty status of people who are working contribute to this relationship. We used a logistic random-effects model designed to test within-person and between-persons differences with data from a nationally representative German sample with 19 ...

Canadian Child Benefits: Behavioural Consequences, Income Adequacy and Alternatives

Canadian Policies for Families with Very Young Children in International Perspective

This chapter compares Canadian policies for families with children under the age of three with policies available in eight other affluent countries (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US), three from each of Esping-Andersen’s ‘three worlds’ of welfare capitalism. Within Canada, the province of Quebec has recently introduced its own system of maternity and parental benefits; ...

Social/Institutional Variables and Behavior within Households: An Empirical Test Using the Luxembourg Income Study

Determinants of fair own wage perceptions: the moderating effect of works councils and performance evaluations

This empirical research note uses large-scale German survey data in order to analyse the determinants of fair wage perceptions. The probability to perceive the own wage as fair increases significantly with earned wages and is larger if a works council exists. Moreover, works councils and performance evaluations have a significant moderating effect on the link between the size of earned wages and fair ...

Unfair Wage Perceptions and Sleep: Evidence from German Survey Data

The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep, and sleep disorders diagnosed by a doctor. Main findings of the regression analysis are that workers, who ...

Have you felt angry lately?: A note on unfair wage perceptions and the negative emotion of anger

The author analyses the nexus between unfair wage perceptions of workers and the frequency of the negative emotion of anger. For this purpose, German household panel data for the years 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 are used. Angry feelings in the last four weeks have occurred significantly more frequently for workers who perceive their wage as unfair, whereas the own absolute hourly wage is not significantly ...