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Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, mortality was considerably higher in the former East Germany than in West Germany. The gap narrowed rapidly after German reunification. The convergence was particularly strong for women, to the point that Eastern women aged 50–69 now have lower mortality despite lower incomes and worse overall living conditions. Prior research has shown that lower smoking rates among ...
In:
Demography
54 (2017), 3, 1051-1071
| Tobias Vogt, Alyson van Raalte, Pavel Grigoriev, Mikko Myrskylä
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Background: After the reunification of Germany, mortality among older eastern Germans converged quickly with western German levels. Simultaneously, the pension benefits of eastern Germans rose tenfold. Objective: We make use of German reunification as a natural experiment to show that, first, increasing financial transfers from the elderly to their children led to increasing reverse transfers in the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 721)
| Tobias C. Vogt, Fanny A. Kluge
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Background: There is increasing evidence that individual health is at least partly determined by neighbourhood and regional factors. Mechanisms, however, remain poorly understood, and evidence from Germany is scant. This study explores whether regional as well as neighbourhood deprivation are associated with physical health and to what extent this association can be explained by specific neighbourhood ...
In:
BMC Public Health
10 (2010), 403,
| Sven Voigtländer, Ursula Berger, Oliver Razum
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Background: In panel datasets information on environmental exposures is scarce. Thus, our goal was to probe the use of area-wide geographically referenced data for air pollution from an external data source in the analysis of physical health. Methods: The study population comprised SOEP respondents in 2004 merged with exposures for NO2, PM10 and O3 based on a multi-year reanalysis of the EURopean Air ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 386)
| Sven Voigtländer, Jan Goebel, Thomas Claßen, Michael Wurm, Ursula Berger, Achim Strunk, Hendrik Elbern
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In:
Journal of Economic Growth
10 (2005), 3, 273-296
| Sara Voitchovsky
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From a capability perspective early childhood is a very important, special stage in human life. It is important because functionings achieved in this early phase of life have been shown to substantially determine future capabilities. It is special because – more than in other stages of life – it depends very much on other people’s agency whether a young child has most important capabilities and can ...
In:
Ortrud Leßmann, Hans-Uwe Otto, Holger Ziegler ,
Closing the Capabilities Gap: Renegotiating social justice for the young
Leverkusen: Verlag Barbara Budrich
179-198
| Jürgen Volkert, Kirsten Wüst
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2004,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 386)
| Thomas W. Jr. Volscho
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Previous studies have shown that overeducation is inferior to adequate employment. For example, overeducated workers have lower earnings, participate less often in continuing education and training, and are less satisfied with their jobs. This article changes perspectives by asking whether it is better for the unemployed to take up a job for which they are overeducated or to remain unemployed and continue ...
In:
European Sociological Review
32 (2016), 2, 251-265
| Jonas Voßemer, Bettina Schuck
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In:
Economic Systems Research
9 (1997), 4, 413-415
| Rainer Voßkamp
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Differdange:
IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD,
2005,
(IRISS Working Paper Series No. 2005-02)
| Ivan Voynov