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Income comparisons are among the key mechanisms used to explain satisfaction and happiness, among other outcomes. Yet …
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Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
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With SOEP's 2007 data release, a number of changes and additions have been made in the cross-sectional weighting scheme. They apply to the following:. - - Inclusion of refreshment sample H.. - - Classification of West Berlin as belonging to the "new" federal states (of former East Germany).. - -...
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The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...
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government ideology and elections influence outcomes (income inequality and budget consolidation) and political processes (fiscal … government ideology and globalization were associated with top income shares in OECD countries. The fourth study shows that …
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We analyze the situation of self-employed receiving means-tested benefits in Germany. A severe loss of income is the … education and working hours, the income of the self-employed actually is much worse in comparison to paid employees who also …
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are household equivalent disposable in-come, household consumption, and wealth. Subsequently we use the Income and … Expenditure Survey (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS)) for Germany since 1993 to compare inequality across income … income and income more une-qually than consumption. …
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This study investigates the income of self-employed based on the panel Labour Markets and Social Security of the …
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Design-based estimators of totals, means or proportions in finite populations generally are functions of weighted sums. If each element selected into the sample is also observed, then for the calculation of the pi-estimator these weights are just the inverse inclusion probabilities of the...
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Mit der Pilotstudie "Leben außerhalb Deutschlands" beschreitet die Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) absolutes methodisches Neuland, indem versucht wird, die Adressen ausgewanderte Teilnehmer des deutsche Haushaltspanels SOEP im Ausland zu recherchieren und die Auswanderer...
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