Demographic Change and the Distribution of Well-being - A Socio-economic Analysis for Germany

在人口变化的背景下，这本书涉及变量之间的关系社会人口和福祉不平等（德国）。在这种情况下，代理变量年龄是最重要的-以下的指导问题，代际正义。在此基础上，在社会层面上，对德国来说，几个年龄组之间的关系，即：e.除了分析人口变化对福祉的直接影响外，还在德国老龄化进程的背景下考虑了间接的人口影响。e.这些影响不仅取决于其他条件不变的变化，而且还取决于与社会和经济变量的相互作用。由于可能的社会冲突-由与年龄有关的分配差异引起-在跨部门一级最为重要，因此对跨部门福利/收入不平等的分析具有相当大的社会政治意义。此外，在书中，一个时期的收入（横截面）分配和（纵向）生活收入分配之间的关系进行了检查-特别是在代际背景下。因此，该书的目的之一是阐述代际福利差异及其决定因素，并在此基础上，从相对全面的角度预测德国的社会人口分布效应，该书与帕格林和库兹涅茨早在20世纪70年代中期就开始的国际科学家辩论有关。在这场争论中，讨论的是人口变量对一定时期的收入不平等的影响。根据这一争论，家庭规模与家庭收入之间存在正相关关系，家庭收入的结构呈倒U型，即家庭规模与家庭收入之间存在正相关关系。e.（一）年龄（一）综合考虑这两个方面，家庭收入的分配取决于家庭规模的分配和与年龄相关的分配（户主的年龄）。本书的主要结论是，与组间不平等相比，组内不平等占主导地位。间接的人口影响似乎比直接的人口影响更重要。

Admidst the backdrop of demographic change, the book deals with the relationships between the variables socio-demography and well-being inequality (for Germany). In this context, the proxy variable age is most important - following the guiding question concerning generational justice. On this basis and on a societal level, for Germany, the relationship between the several age groups, i. e. between the age-differentiated generations in the sense of birth cohorts is illuminated with respect to well-being inequality - pointedly: between the "old" and the "young".Beyond the analysis of direct well-being effects caused by the demographic change, indirect demographic effects are considered in the context of the process of ageing in Germany, i. e. effects which are not only determined by ceteris-paribus changes but via the interaction with societal and economic variables. Since possible societal conflicts - caused by age-related distributional differences - are most important on a cross-sectional level, the analysis of cross-sectional well-being/income inequality is of considerable socio-political interest. Furthermore, in the book, the relationships between the (cross-sectional) distribution of a period's incomes and (longitudinal) life-income distribution are examined - especially in the intergenerational context. Thus, one of the book's aims is the elaboration of intergenerational well-being differences and their determinants as well as, on this basis, projections concerning socio-demographic distributional effects for Germany in a relatively comprehensive perspective.The book is linked to an international debate of scientists, which was opened by Paglin and Kuznets already in the mid-1970s. In this debate, it is discussed about the impacts of demographic variables on the measured income inequality of a certain period. According to this debate, household size and household income correlate positively with each other, and household incomes are structured inversely u-shaped, i. e. concavely, with respect to age (of the household head). Considering these two aspects together, the distribution of household incomes depends on the distribution of household size and on the age-related distribution (in the sense of household head's age).The book¿s main finding is dominance of the within-group inequality compared with between-group inequality. The indirect demographic effects appear more important than the direct demographic effects.