Measuring Income in Household Panel Surveys for Germany: A Comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP [PDF]
Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
Joachim R. Frick, Kristina Krell
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Keeping Up With the Schmidts: An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context [PDF]
We test empirically whether people’s life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population ...
Carol Propper +2 more
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The Eff ect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germanys [PDF]
Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax exemptions – the so-called Riester scheme.
Carsten Schröder +2 more
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To Claim or Not to Claim: Estimating Non-take-up of Social Assistance in Germany and the Role of Measurement Error [PDF]
Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) inGermany.
Joachim R. Frick, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Work Hours Constraints and Health [PDF]
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy.
Alfonso Sousa-Poza +2 more
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The effect of health on refugees' labor market integration: Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany. [PDF]
PLoS OneGoßner L, Jaschke P, Kosyakova Y.
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Sex and gender effects on incidence of migraine and stroke: a longitudinal observational study based on the german socio-economic panel. [PDF]
Biol Sex DifferKern M +4 more
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseen Technological Mistake [PDF]
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several ...
Ludger Wößmann +2 more
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The emergence of trust under conditions of distrust. [PDF]
Sci RepFehlhaber AL.
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