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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600858
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017414
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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Similar Results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600944
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600752
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Wie (in)stabil ist die Lebenszufriedenheit? Eine Sequenzanalyse mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)
Schräpler, Laura; Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - 2019
Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Analyse der Stabilität der Lebenszufriedenheit, auf Basis der Paneldaten … bereits in der Literatur vorliegende Analysen zur (In)Stabilität der Lebenszufriedenheit ergänzt und vertieft werden. Es wird … eine geringe Bildung eine signifikante Wirkung auf die Stabilität der langfristigen Lebenszufriedenheit aufweisen. Dies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053259
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed?: Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017424
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Eine exemplarische Anwendung der regionalisierten Preisniveau-Daten des BBSR auf die Einkommensverteilung für die Jahre 2005 bis 2008
Goebel, Jan; Krause, Peter; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, … - 2010
Analyse der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland einbezogen. Im Ergebnis führt dies bei den verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen zu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600926
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The Socio-Economic Module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE): Description, Structure, and Questionnaire
Böckenhoff, Anke; Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128949
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The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2007
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it is possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600691
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Self-Selection and Subjective Well-Being: Copula Models with an Application to Public and Private Sector Work
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008
We discuss a new approach to specifying and estimating ordered probit models with endogenous switching, or with binary endogenous regressor, based on copula functions. These models provide a framework of analysis for self-selection in economic well-being equations, where assigment of regressors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600780