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Noeeta bisetosa MERZ 1992
No full textNoeeta bisetosa MERZ 1992 M a t e r i a l: Osttirol: Lavant 7.7.1986, 24.7.1987. B e m e r k u n g e n Von dieser Art liegen bisher erst Funde aus der Schweiz, Ungarn, Russland und der Ukraine vor (MERZ & KORNEVEY 2008). Sie wird hier zum ersten Mal aus Österreich gemeldet. Die Larven leben in Blütenköpfen von Hieracium piloselloides (Asteraceae) und können vor allem in Schuttflächen gefunden werden.Published as part of Merz, B. & Kofler, A., 2008, Fruchtfliegen aus Osttirol und Kärnten (Österreich) (Diptera: Tephritidae), pp. 1211-1224 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1217, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.543062
Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
No full textGerman and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of Germans and Americans in the 1980s. In our analysis we use both official equivalence scales and consumption-based country-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels are found not to be sensitive to the equivalence scale used. But the official German equivalence scales yields quite different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups within the population, especially older single people.alternative equivalence scale, Germany, USA, distribution of income, inequality, poverty
Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
No full textGerman and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of Germans and Americans in the 1980s. In our analysis we use both official equivalence scales and consumption-based country-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels are found not to be sensitive to the equivalence scale used. But the official German equivalence scales yields quite different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups within the population, especially older single people.alternative equivalence scale, Germany, USA, distribution of income, inequality, poverty
Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
No full textGerman and United States data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to compare the relative economic well-being of Germans and Americans in the 1980s. In our analysis we use both official equivalence scales and consumption-based country-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels are found not to be sensitive to the equivalence scale used. But the official German equivalence scales yields quite different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups within the population, especially older single people.alternative equivalence scale, Germany, USA, distribution of income, inequality, poverty
Representative Time Use Data and Calibration of the American Time Use Studies 1965-1999
No full textValid and reliable individual time use data in connection with an appriate set of socio -economic background variables are essential elements of an empirical foundation and evaluation of existing time use theories and for the search of new empirical-based hypotheses about individual behavior. Within the Yale project of Assessing American Heritage Time Use Studies (1965, 1975, 19895, 1992-94 and 1998/99), supported by the Glaser Foundation, and working with these time use studies, it is necessary to be sure about comparable representative data. As it will become evident, there is a serious bias in all of these files concerning demographic characteristics, characteristics which are important for substantive time use research analyses. Our study and new calibration solution will circumvent these biases by delivering a comprehensive demographic adjustment for all incorporated U.S. time use surveys, which is theoretically funded (here by information theory and the minimum information loss principle with its ADJUST program package), is consistent by a simultaneous weighting including hierarchical data, considers substantial requirements for time use research analyses and is similar and thus comparable in the demographic adjustment characteristics for all U.S. time use files to support substantial analyses and allows to disentangle demographic vs. time use behavioral changes and developments.time use, calibration (adjustment re-weighting) of microdata, information theory, minimum information loss principle, American Heritage Time Use Studies, ADJUST program package
Time Use and Time Budgets – Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations
No full text“Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care programmes, among others” (United Nations). This expertise will discuss recent developments, improvements and future challenges of time use and time budgets for policy and research with focus on international and in particular German national developments. It is written in the sequel of the last German KVI commission report on the improvement of the information infrastructure between sciences and statistics. Topics are: recent :international time use institutions, data archives and surveys; German time use data bases and their access, actual time use research fields and studies; time use and economic and social policy; new methods in time use survey sampling, future developments and European and international challenges. The conclusions recommend first of all a new German Time Use Survey GTUS 2011/12 and urgently calls for its financing and start of organisation. Specific GTUS improvements, SOEP time use issues, a brand new time use panel and a permanent establishment of the German research data centres (RDCs) are recommended in addition.Time use, time budgets and time use surveys, time use data
Homoneura interstincta
No full textHomoneura interstincta (FALLÉN 1820) M a t e r i a l: Osttirol: Lienz-Stadt: Schloss Bruck, beim Herrenbrünnl 27.7.2005. B e m e r k u n g Die Interpretation dieser Art erfolgt aufgrund der Typenuntersuchungen der Sammlung von C. F. Fallén (MERZ 2003b).Published as part of Merz, B. & Kofler, A., 2008, Zur Kenntnis der Lauxaniidae und Pallopteridae (Diptera, Acalyptrata) in Osttirol und Kärnten (Österreich), pp. 1225-1235 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1228, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.543062
Tephritis conyzifoliae Merz 1992
No full text<i>Tephritis conyzifoliae</i> Merz, 1992 (fig. 3) <p>M a t e r i a l. Transcarpatian Region, Uzhans’kyi National Park, Beskydy (Bieszczady) Mts.: 49.034 N 22.808 E, Kinchyk Bukovs’ky, 1120 m a. s. l., 6.07.2004, 1 Ơ, 1 ǫ; 1200–1245 m a. s. l., 20.06.2005, 2 Ơ, 2 ǫ; 1130 m a. s. l., 25.06.2008, 4 Ơ, 2 ǫ, all on alpine grassland (A. Klasa) (OPN; AKC).</p> <p>Larvae develop in the flower heads of <i>Crepis conyzifolia</i> (Gouan) A. Kern. (Merz, 1994), <i>C. sibirica</i> L., and <i>C. pannonica</i> (Jacq.) K. Koch. (see: Korneyev, 2016 b for references).</p> <p>D i s t r i b u t i o n. Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Russia (Central, East; West Siberia, incl. Altai), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan (Korneyev, 2016 b), Poland (Klasa, Palaczyk 2005). First record from Ukraine.</p>Published as part of <i>Korneyev, S. V. & Klasa, A., 2016, New Records And A Revised Checklist Of Fruit Flies Of The Genus Tephritis (Diptera, Tephritidae) From Ukraine, pp. 219-224 in Vestnik Zoologii 50 (3)</i> on page 221, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0025, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/6453668">http://zenodo.org/record/6453668</a>
Keeping in Touch – A Benefit of Public Holidays
No full textThis paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing the utility of leisure on normal weekdays and weekends. The paper uses the variation (13 to 17) in public holidays across German Länder and the German Time Use Survey of 2001-02 to show that public holidays have beneficial impacts on social life on normal weekdays and weekends. Since these benefits are additional to the other benefits of holidays, it suggests that there is a case to be made for more public holidays.public holidays, social contacts, social leisure time, time allocation, time use diaries
Lauxania cylindricornis
No full textLauxania cylindricornis (FABRICIUS 1794) M a t e r i a l: Osttirol: Assling: Thal, beim Weidenbrünnl 24.5.2002; Assling: Mittewald 27.6.1994; Hopfgarten i.D.: Dölach 10.7.1988 1020 m; Nikolsdorf: Nörsach 6.5.2002; Nikolsdorf: Weg nach Plon 17.6.1990 1020 m; Tristach: Tristacher See 21.5.1987. B e m e r k u n g Zur Taxonomie-Geschichte der Gattung wird auf MERZ (2001) verwiesen, dessen Schlüssel zur Unterscheidung der 5 europäischen Arten hier verwendet wurde.Published as part of Merz, B. & Kofler, A., 2008, Zur Kenntnis der Lauxaniidae und Pallopteridae (Diptera, Acalyptrata) in Osttirol und Kärnten (Österreich), pp. 1225-1235 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1228, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.543062
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