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Dynamik von Armut in Deutschland - Ergebnisse mikroökonometrischer Analysen (Dissertation)

Valuing the Impacts of Climate Change Using the Life Satisfaction Approach. An Application to Extreme Weather Events (master thesis)

Measuring Renewable Energy Externalities: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Electricity from renewable sources avoids disadvantages of conventional power generation but often meets with local resistance. We use 324,763 observations on the subjective well-being of 46,678 individuals in Germany, 1994–2012, for identifying and valuing the local externalities from solar, wind, and biomass plants in respondents’ postcode district and adjacent postcode districts. We find significant ...

Measuring impacts of extreme weather events using the life satisfaction approach

Extreme weather events cause harm among the aggrieved party that often goes beyond material damages. This paper studies the impact of extreme weather events on measures of self-reported life satisfaction. Focusing on Germany, we use representative panel data for 2000–2011 to study the effect of seven storm & hail events and five floods on subjective well-being in the affected NUTS 3 regions. Our ...

Prekariat oder Upper Class – microm liefert Modell zur Identifizierung sozialer Schichten in der Gesellschaft

Ob exklusive Nachbarschaft oder Prekariat: Die zunehmende Trennung zwischen arm und reich in Deutschland lässt sich auch räumlich nachverfolgen.

Zeitgespräch: Das Mindestlohngesetz - Hoffnungen und Befürchtungen

Der Bundestag wird das Mindestlohngesetz voraussichtlich Anfang Juli 2014 verabschieden. Ab Januar 2015 soll eine Lohnuntergrenze von 8,50 Euro pro Stunde eingeführt werden und mit wenigen Ausnahmen flächendeckend gelten. Diskutiert wird, welche Folgen der Mindestlohn auf die Beschäftigung und die Lohnentwicklung haben wird. Der Anpassungsdruck in Ostdeutschland wird durch das niedrigere Lohnniveau ...

Consumer’ Risk Attitude based Personalisation for Content Delivery

One of the challenges that mobile services face is the high cost of data delivery over cellular networks. This problem is further aggravated with the use of multimedia type content that can lead to congestion and higher bills. Although higher cost might not be a problem for everyone, there are people who would not like to pay that much. This paper proposes delivering personalized content that is cost ...

Poverty Permance Among European Youth

Wage Persistence and Labour Market Institutions: An Analysis of Young European Workers

Long-term Care Responsibility and its Opportunity Costs

This paper analyzes the relationship between long-term care provision and the average individual wage rate. In addition, the effects of the number of hours spent on caregiving on the probability of employment as well as on the number of hours worked are examined. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) of 2004 and 2006 is used to analyze caregiving effects on the European labor ...