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Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of self-employed persons not only by asking about traditional single income poverty but also by considering time ...
Lüneburg:
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB),
2016,
(FFB-Diskussionspapier Nr. 102)
| Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen
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Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of self-employed persons not only by asking about traditional single income poverty but also by considering time ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 851)
| Joachim Merz, Tim Rathjen
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A growing polarization of society accompanied by an erosion of the middle class is receiving increasing attention in recent German economic and social policy discussion. Our study contributes to this discussion in two ways: First, on a theoretical level we propose extended multidimensional polarization indices based on a constant elasticity of substitution (CES)-type well-being function and present ...
In:
John A. Bishop, Juan Gabriel Rodríguez ,
Economic Well-Being and Inequality: Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting (Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 22)
Bingley: Emerald
273-321
| Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg
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Bonn:
University of Bonn and IZA,
2006,
| Monika Merz
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Milan:
2008,
| Monika Merz
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This paper explores the economic determinants affecting high shcool graduates' career choices in Germany. The estimation results show that high school graduates' career decisions are at least partially determined by economic considerations. Other major determinants are the parental skill-level, and age at the time of Abitur.
Florenz:
European University Institute, Economics Department,
1999,
(EUI Working Paper ECO No. 99/11)
| Monika Merz, Axel Schimmelpfennig
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In:
Proceedings of the 1998 Third International Conference of the GSOEP Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
68 (1999), 2, 204-208
| Monika Merz, Axel Schimmelpfennig
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Jena:
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Group Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy,
2006,
(Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy #1806)
| Georg Metzer, Michaela Niefert
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This dissertation focuses on three dimensions of inequality: income, (just) taxation, and well-being. All chapters focus on a similar time horizon (2000 to 2015) and essentially on the same geographical area, Germany. The chapters are organized in four parts, each examining a specific research question and based on evidence from microdata - the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The analysis of chapter ...
2019,
| Maria Metzing
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children in France and Germany with a focus on the link between family size and educational decisions and distinguishing particularly between first- and second-generation immigrants and between source country groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher education track attendance ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
15 (2017), 4, 1137-1158
| Dominique Meurs, Patrick A. Puhani, Friederike von Haaren