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Previous literature has identified income, health status and social relationships as the most important predictors of subjective wellbeing (SWB). In addition, the literature has identified a non-linear relationship between age and SWB, with a dip in SWB in midlife. Explanations of the non-linear age–SWB relationship include the notion of unmet aspirations and the idea that people's emotional response ...
In:
Economica
91 (2024), 363, 809-836
| Jürgen Bitzer, Erkan Gören, Heinz Welsch
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We examine how inequality evolved in Germany during the 1983-2020 period. Labor market participation of women increased significantly, while average weekly working hours of women changed little. Gender differences in earnings are still pervasive and more pronounced for individuals with children. Inequality in earnings and disposable household income increased from the 1990s until 2005. Since then, ...
In:
EConPol Forum
25 (2024), 2, 47-52
| Maximilian Blömer, Elena Herold, Max Lay, Andreas Peichl, Ann-Christin Rathje, Paul Schüle, Anne Steuernagel
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Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 65 percent compared to 1990 by 2030 to achieve national climate targets. Nearly one third of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are caused by private household consumption. Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, this Weekly Report calculates the amount of CO2 equivalents emitted by households due to residential energy use, nutrition, and transport in Germany. ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
27/2024 (2024), 179-186
| Sandra Bohmann, Merve Küçük
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Amidst the challenges of declining response rates and escalating costs in survey research, the adoption of innovative new data collection designs such as planned missingness and split questionnaire designs is becoming increasingly prevalent. This dissertation addresses the imputation of social survey data from split questionnaire designs and the methodological decisions associated with implementing ...
2023,
| Julian B. Axenfeld
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Market-driven closures of coal mines have typically been associated with negative economic consequences for the affected regions. In Germany, structural policy directed towards ameliorating the negative effects of hard coal decline in the Ruhr area lagged behind the onset of decline, caused major political conflicts, and has been variously criticized for its reactive character that failed to generate ...
In:
Social Sciences
13 (2024), 7, 339
| Daniel Baron, Walter Bartl
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What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We investigate consequences of land inequality, exploiting variation in land inheritance rules that traverse political, linguistic, geological, and religious borders in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible. Using ...
In:
The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 664, 3137-3172
| Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger, Natalie Obergruber
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There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40, then widens, and declines for those past retirement ...
In:
Economics Letters
246 (2025), 111997
| Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder
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Background: The large increase in numbers of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany and most of Europe has put the issue of migration itself, the integration of migrants, and also their health at the top of the political agenda. However, the dynamics of refugee health are not yet well understood. From a life-course perspective, migration experience is associated with various risks and changes, which ...
In:
PLOS Medicine
17 (2020), 3, e1003093
| Jan Michael Bauer, Tilman Brand, Hajo Zeeb
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Nearly 25 years after the German reunification, vastly different living conditions between East and West Germany still remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks. Using the wealth component of the ...
Tübingen:
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
2015,
(University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance)
| Gideon Becker
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We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy variation using an RD design to estimate the effect of increasing disability benefits on employment, earnings, ...
In:
IZA DP No. 17298
IZA DP No. 17298
| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan