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in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … pension benefits as an insurance against old age poverty. While such a reform raises a concern about an increase in abuse of …
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monitoring of poverty in old age and corresponding policy targets are to focus on the relevant measures, they should take into …
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take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education. We test …
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visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The … relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. …
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entrance degree but no further professional qualification as well as for those who were in the upper percentiles of the income …
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Income is an important determinant of individual standards of living and participation in social life. Data from the … German Socio-Economic Panel shows that the level of income also affects a person's health and life expectancy. People's self … lower the income, the more frequent the impairments to subjective health. Life expectancy statistics also reflect income …
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(or 'income') during childhood and later-life outcomes; we do not explicitly consider the impact of other family … social security benefits. However we conclude that, broadly speaking, the analyti-cal framework that has been used for high-income … countries can also be applied to low-income countries. …
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earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …
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, we observe, that individual leisure activities depend strongly on income and education along with age and gender. Over … time, the influence of income also increases. In sum, it appears that differences in leisure are indeed still strongly …
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This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …
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