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  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215632" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215632</id>
  <updated>2026-04-28T11:21:02Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-28T11:21:02Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Thresholds for time and income poverty in households: Evidence from joint distributions</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/335884" />
    <author>
      <name>Dorn, Franziska</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/335884</id>
    <updated>2026-02-04T08:17:01Z</updated>
    <published>2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Thresholds for time and income poverty in households: Evidence from joint distributions
Authors: Dorn, Franziska
Abstract: Time poverty is a key yet conceptually contested dimension of household living standards. Both univariate and bivariate measures remain debated because there is no clear consensus on how to define and quantify socially necessary unpaid work, the time that money cannot substitute for, across household types and income levels. Existing approaches typically adjust monetary poverty lines for unpaid work responsibilities or rely on average unpaid work time, while assuming a fixed substitutability between time and money. Such measures fail to capture the joint constraints that shape household living standards. Using household-level data from the 2017 and 2019 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the analysis supports setting 60 percent of the median as the threshold for socially necessary unpaid work in single-adult households without children and applying equivalence scales for other household types. The bivariate relative poverty line (BRPL) framework further defines nonlinear bundles of unpaid household work and food expenditure that mark the threshold for living above the poverty line. The results show that 10.1 percent of oneand two-adult households fall below the BRPL despite not being poor according to univariate measures, underscoring the importance of jointly considering time and money in assessing household living standards and poverty.</summary>
    <dc:date>2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Differential returns in Germany</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309421" />
    <author>
      <name>Lagemann, Theresa</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Rehm, Miriam</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309421</id>
    <updated>2025-02-01T02:11:47Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Differential returns in Germany
Authors: Lagemann, Theresa; Rehm, Miriam
Abstract: This paper estimates rates of return on wealth across gross wealth groups by matching individual-level survey data with macroeconomic return data for Germany. Using machine learning for more detailed financial asset categories, we find that the average nominal rate of return on gross assets for the bottom 50% is 1%, for the upper middle 40% it amounts to about 5.4%, and for the top 10% to 6.3%. Adjusted for inflation and interest payments on loans, the average rate of return for the bottom 50% is negative. We show that an intersectional analysis of wealth returns matters, with certain socio-economic characteristics such as gender or migration background predicting the position of individuals in the wealth distribution.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Economic polarization in the European Union: Development models in the race for the best location</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311852" />
    <author>
      <name>Dominy, Jonas</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Heimberger, Philipp</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Kapeller, Jakob</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311852</id>
    <updated>2025-02-22T02:38:43Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Economic polarization in the European Union: Development models in the race for the best location
Authors: Dominy, Jonas; Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Heimberger, Philipp; Kapeller, Jakob
Abstract: This paper analyzes developmental trajectories in the EU. In doing so, it diagnoses economic polarization on two different levels: for one, we observe a divergence of average incomes across EU countries as a persistent empirical feature associated with European integration. For another, European economic integration in general and the introduction of the Euro in particular are associated with the emergence of heterogeneous developmental trajectories, which build on, and intensify differences in technological capabilities, institutional and legal setups, as well as labor market characteristics. When clustering countries with reference to similarities in terms of macroeconomic and institutional characteristics across countries, we find evidence for the existence of four distinct development models: core, periphery, and workbench economies, as well as financial hubs. Each of these groups is defined by distinct technological, institutional, and macroeconomic characteristics. Our findings point to suitable ways for extending and refining existing typological approaches, such as the Varieties of Capitalism or the growth model approach, thereby allowing us to better account for the heterogeneity of developmental pathways emerging in the course of an intensifying European race for the best location.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Energy poverty and health: Micro-level evidence from Germany</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313638" />
    <author>
      <name>Buchner, Martin</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Rehm, Miriam</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313638</id>
    <updated>2025-04-25T15:11:26Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Energy poverty and health: Micro-level evidence from Germany
Authors: Buchner, Martin; Rehm, Miriam
Abstract: This paper aims to understand the health effects of energy poverty in Germany using SOEP panel data from 2010 to 2020. Linear probability models and fixed effects ordered logit models reveal a consistently negative relationship of three expendituresbased energy poverty indicators with general health. The association is stronger for the subjective energy poverty metric: members of households unable to keep the home comfortably warm due to financial reasons have an about 3.23 p.p. lower probability of being in at least satisfactory health. Investigating potential channels shows that mental health is consistently negatively linked to our energy poverty metrics, while physical health is weakly associated with energy poverty in Germany, with the exception of doctor visits. Finally, by instrumenting energy poverty with data on energy price indices and matching energy costs to the heating systems used by households, we show that living in a household that experiences a transition to energy poverty due to rising energy prices is also linked to a lower likelihood of being in good health.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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