BACKGROUND Socioeconomic differences in old-age mortality have not been studied in Germany. This study fills in the gap, evaluating mortality and life expectancy differentials among retired German men aged 65+ in 2003. METHODS Mortality rates are calculated from the administrative database on all public pensions and deaths of pensioners in 2003. Relative mortality rates and life expectancies ...

The number of scholars following the tempo approach in fertility continues to grow, whereas tempo-adjustment in mortality generally still is rejected. This rejection is irrational in principle, as the basic idea behind the tempo approach is independent of the kind of demographic event. Providing the first empirical application to a substantial problem, this chapter shows that mortality tempo-ad...

In the framework of a new program on housing and health, the World Health Organization has undertaken a field survey on panel block housing estates in Eastern Germany, Lithuania and Slovakia aiming at a preliminary assessment of housing conditions in Eastern European countries and their potential health consequences. It also aimed to highlight housing and health problems of Eastern European tra...

Rubus ser. Rhamnifolii includes apomictic polyploid species, which occur in north-western and central Europe, with rare outposts to eastern Europe. A regionally distributed tetraploid species of the series occurring north south Eastern Alps Austria Germany, noricus is described here. The new morphologically compared similar taxa series, moreover, comprehensive iconography, data on distribution ...

The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of uni ed Germany. It emphasises the role of private and public capital accumulation during the developing process. The theoretical part derives scal policy rules which establish convergence of regional output per capital and convergence of regional human wealth. To assess the speed of convergence ...

We present niche-based modelling to project the distribution of 845 European plant species for Germany using three different models and three scenarios of climate and land use changes up to 2080. Projected changes suggested large effects over the coming decades, with consequences for the German flora. Even under a moderate scenario (approx. +2.2 degrees C), 15-19% (across models) of the species...

Seppo Ylä-Herttuala1; Jacob Fog Bentzon2; Mat Daemen3; Erling Falk2; Hector M. Garcia-Garcia4; Joerg Herrmann5; Imo Hoefer6; J. Wouter Jukema7; Rob Krams8; Brenda R. Kwak9; Nikolaus Marx10; Marek Naruszewicz11; Andrew Newby12; Gerard Pasterkamp6; Patrick W. J. C. Serruys4; Johannes Waltenberger13; Christian Weber14; Lale Tokgözoglu15 1Chairman of the position paper task force, A.I.Virtanen Inst...

We examine job creation and destruction in Eastern and Western Germany for the period of 1999 to 2004, using a large dataset, which enables us to capture clearly entries and exits. There are pronounced differences between the two parts of Germany in terms of magnitude and composition of gross job flows. Considering interaction effects between all variables, weighted regressions show that job cr...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later-life health and mortality, paying particular attention to possible differences by sex and region. Higher parity is associated with better self-rated health in West German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with East German women's physical health and survival is negative. E...

How can a democratic culture develop among people who have lived for decades in an autocratic system? We examine this issue in the unified Germany, which provides a unique case, but for this very reason a particularly instructive one. German unification integrated two communities with a common history until the end of the Second World War. For a period of 50 years thereafter they lived in two d...