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This overview is a comprehensive reconstruction of the social indicators movement from the middle of the 1960s up to the actual quality of life and wellbeing-research 50 years later. The time span regarded here corresponds roughly with the professional life of the two authors and the article is dedicated to Alex Michalos, to whom our research network thanks a lot.
In:
Filomena Maggino ,
A Life Devoted to Quality of Life. Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos
Cham, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer International Publishing
195-207
| Wolfgang Glatzer, Wolfgang Zapf
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In this paper I evaluate the effect of student aid on the success of academic studies. I focus on two dimensions, the duration of study and the probability of actually graduating with a degree. While there is an extensive literature on the impact of student aid on its intended outcome, the uptake of tertiary education, the impact on the outcome and on study incentives has been mainly ignored. But introducing ...
In:
Economics of Education Review
30 (2011), 1, 177-190
| Daniela Glocker
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2007,
(IZA DP No. 2561)
| Daniela Glocker, Viktor Steiner
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In:
Economics of Education Review
42 (2014), 109-129
| Daniela Glocker, Johanna Storck
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Are responses to a simple survey item sufficiently reliable in eliciting risk attitudes? Our angle in examining reliability is to conduct comparative research across Thailand and Vietnam. We find, first, that the survey item is informative about individual risk attitude because it is plausibly related to socio-demographic characteristics (including vulnerability), it is experimentally validated and ...
2011,
| Oliver Gloede, Lukas Menkhoff, Hermann Waibel
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2007,
(SOEPpapers 61)
| David Glowsky
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This paper proposes a new method of calculating the proportion of permanently impoverished persons among persons in poverty as a whole. The paper shows that the widely used Shorrocks-Index for decomposing permanent and transitory inequality can also be acquired to describe poverty. This method overcomes certain difficulties involved in the methods of Rodgers & Rodgers (1993). The characteristics ...
Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2001,
(Discussion Papers No. 256)
| Jan Goebel
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Income disparities between poorer and richer households in Germany have been widening since reunification. Although this income polarisation is reduced during economically favourable periods by strong growth in employment, once the good times are over, it rises all the faster. The longer-term trend not only shows that the number of poorer households is steadily increasing, but also that on average ...
In:
Weekly Report
6 (2010), 26, 199-205
| Jan Goebel, Martin Gornig, Hartmut Häußermann
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In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
239 (2019), 2, 345-360
| Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Stefan Liebig, Martin Kroh, David Richter, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp
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In:
Ralph Friedmann, Lothar Knüppel, Helmut Lütkepohl ,
Econometric Studies. A Festschrift in Honour of Joachim Frohn
Münster: LIT
269-293
| Heinz P. Galler