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Life Satisfaction and Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - 2008
Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West Germany was slightly less than that before unification....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600741
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
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
to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017414
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Does Relative Income Matter? Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600854
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Does Relative Income Matter?: Are the Critics Right?
Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Do other peoples' incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And … does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many … samples since 1972) comparator income has a negative effect on happiness equal in magnitude to the positive effect of own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017426
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Income or leisure? On the hidden benefits of (un-)employment
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2017
We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719306
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Self-Reported Satisfaction and the Economic Crisis of 2007-10: Or How People in the UK and Germany Perceive a Severe Cyclical Downturn
Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185778
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Self-reported satisfaction and the economic crisis of 2007-10: Or how people in the UK and Germany perceive a severe cyclical downturn
Mertens, Antje; Beblo, Miriam - 2013
Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322347
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Income comparisons, income adaptation, and life satisfaction: How robust are estimates from survey data?
Pfaff, Tobias - 2013
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests of the effects often rely on self-constructed measures from survey data. This paper shows that results can be highly sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313034
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Income Comparisons, Income Adaptation, and Life Satisfaction: How Robust Are Estimates from Survey Data?
Pfaff, Tobias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests of the effects often rely on self-constructed measures from survey data. This paper shows that results can be highly sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659950