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immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period …. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting … as well. Disposable income inequality and the low-income rate are stagnating, but the trends differ depending on …
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Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on the role of time. We use panel data on 49,000 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2012 to uncover three empirical relationships. First, life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity...
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
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microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …
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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
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We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 45,800 individuals living in Germany from 1992 to 2011 to show first that life satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252812
Unter Berücksichtigung neuer Informationen zu regionalen Preisniveaus in Deutschland fallen die realen Einkommensunterschiede zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland geringer aus als bisher berechnet. Nach Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) und den vom Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung...
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Die EU-Kommission hat 2010 zum Europäischen Jahr gegen Armut und soziale Ausgrenzung ausgerufen. Ein Ziel dieser Aktion ist es, das öffentliche Bewusstsein für die Risiken von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung zu stärken und deren Ursachen und Auswirkungen besser zu verstehen. Neue Analysen zur...
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Both wages and needs-adjusted household income increased by ten percent between 2013 and 2018, benefiting all income … time, the low-wage sector shrank by two percentage points. Household income inequality, in contrast, has hardly changed for … many years and the low-income rate is stagnating. However, the share of people in Germany who are affected by severe …
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