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Gesundheitliche Resilienz - Konzept und Empirie zur Reduzierung gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit im Alter (Dissertation)

Health resilience: Concept and empirical evidence to reduce health inequalities among the elderly

In the face of persistent health inequalities in later life, the objective of the study is to examine whether distinct forms of health lifestyles and individual or collective social capital predict the probability of health resilience among a cohort of men and women aged 65 and older from lower social classes. A longitudinal study design based on four waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002 ...

Soziale Gerechtigkeit im OECD-Vergleich

Child Care Demand and Mothers' Labor Supply

Savings, Remittances, and Return Migration

Employment and Wages in Germany: Regional and Sectoral Dynamics

Labor Mobility and Wage Dynamics - An Empirical Study for Germany in Comparison with the United States (Dissertation)

Rates of Return and Early Retirement Disincentives: Evidence from a German Pension Reform

To counteract the financial pressure emerging in aging societies, statutory pension schemes are undergoing fundamental reforms in many Western countries. Starting with cohort 1937, Germany introduced permanent pension deductions for early retirement. This study examines the profitability of pension contributions against the background of this reform for cohorts 1935–1945. Internal rates of return (IRR) ...

Quantifizierung lokaler externer Effekte fossiler Kraftwerke : eine empirische Analyse anhand von Lebenszufriedenheitsdaten

In the course of the energy transition, the German Commission on “Growth, Structural Change and Employment” recommended a stepwise phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation until 2038 and a partly substitution by gas-fired power plants. In this context local externalities of various types of fossil fuel-fired power plants are investigated and quantified using the life satisfaction approach. Therefore, ...

Social Explanations of Lottery Play: New Evidence Based on National Survey Data

This study examines the social contexts of gambling and analyzes social motivations for playing the lottery. We test three sociological approaches simultaneously: network effects, consumption theory, and strain theory. The data used (SOEP-IS, N = 5868 individuals) has several advantages beyond being a large-scale representative sample of the German population. With information on households, we can ...