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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2008
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600730
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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany
Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - 2012
This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290957
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A Level Playing Field: An Optimal Weighting Scheme of Dismissal Protection Characteristics
Kind, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
In the case of collective redundancies, employers are forced to regard certain characteristics when deciding who is going to be dismissed. This paper develops a procedure to derive an empirical based weighting scheme between the characteristics relevant for this selection (age, disability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896282
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The Aggregate Effects of the Hartz Reforms in Germany
Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787015
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Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017489
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A level playing field: An optimal weighting scheme of dismissal protection characteristics
Kind, Michael - 2013
In the case of collective redundancies, employers are forced to regard certain characteristics when deciding who is going to be dismissed. This paper develops a procedure to derive an empirical based weighting scheme between the characteristics relevant for this selection (age, disability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322839
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Minimum wage in Germany: Countering the wage and employment gap between migrants and natives?
Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the wages and employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit from a minimum wage. We combine a "differential trend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546660
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How job changes affect people's lives: Evidence from subjective well-being data
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschkeo, Clemens - 2015
For representative German panel data, we document that voluntary job switching is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures as an exogenous trigger of switching to a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516285
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Effectiveness of social capital in the job search process
Koßmann, Ralf Werner - 2016
The empirical literature has provided ample yet contradictory evidence on the effectiveness of social ties in the job search process in terms of post-hire outcomes, such as wages or job satisfaction. Whereas early research, mainly focussing on the U.S. labour market, found positive correlations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454475
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The effect of unemployment on the smoking behavior of couples
Everding, Jakob; Marcus, Jan - 2019
Socio-Economic Panel data, we combine matching and difference-in-differences estimation, employing the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011561