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A crucial debate in policy-making as well as academic circles is whether there is a trade-off between economic efficiency and the size/generosity of the welfare state. One way to contribute to this debate is to compare the performance of ‘best cases’ of different types of state. Arguably, in the decade 1985-94, the US, West Germany and the Netherlands were ‘best cases’ - best economic performers - ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
50 (2000), 2, 115-157
| Bruce Headey, et al.
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In:
Social Indicators Research
36 (1995), 3, 247-273
| Bruce Headey, Rudolph Andorka, Peter Krause
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In:
Proceedings of the 1998 Third International Conference of the GSOEP Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
68 (1999), 2, 153-163
| Bruce Headey, Robert E. Goodin, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Henk-Jan Dirven
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Previous cross-sectional and intervention studies have suggested that pet owners may enjoy better physical and mental health than non-owners. This paper presents longitudinal evidence from a major national representative longitudinal survey: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Because the data are longitudinal, it is possible to assess the impact on health outcomes (measured by number of doctor ...
Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2004,
(DIW Discussion Paper No. 434)
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka
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In:
Social Indicators Research
80 (2007), 2, 297-311
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka
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In:
Peggy McCardle, Sandra McCune, James A. Griffin, Valerie Maholmes ,
How Animals Affect Us: Examining the Influence of Human–Animal Interaction on Child Development and Human Health
Washington: American Psychological Association
153-162
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka
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Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century. While country differences in intergenerational mobility are surprisingly small, gender, regional, racial and ethnic differences were initially large but declined over time. At the end of the 20th century, however, mobility ...
Wiesbaden:
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften,
2016,
| Florian R. Hertel
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Based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Socio-economic Panel, we study the class mobility of three concurrent generations in the U.S. and Germany. We find that, in both countries, the grandfathers’ class is directly associated with their grandchildren's social position. We propose three possible mechanisms which could explain the observed multigenerational mobility patterns. ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
35 (2014), March 2014, 35-52
| Florian R. Hertel, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows (1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the inflow rate (job separation). On the contrary, since the implementation of the reforms in the mid-2000s, the importance of the outflow rate (job finding) has been ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 532)
| Matthias S. Hertweck, Oliver Sigrist
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This article decomposes fluctuations in the German unemployment rate into changes in inflows (job separation) and outflows (job finding). For this purpose, we construct and examine monthly labour market transition rates from the West German sample of the SOEP (and the CPS) for the period 1984–2009. We explicitly take account of the low level of labour market transition rates in Germany. Our article ...
In:
Oxford Economic Papers - New Series
67 (2015), 4, 1078-1095
| Matthias S. Hertweck, Oliver Sigrist