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Testing the easterlin hypothesis with panel data: The dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross-section but not over time) on a global level. We make a case for testing the Easterlin hypothesis at the country level where individual panel data allow exploiting important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313032
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Testing the Easterlin Hypothesis with Panel Data: The Dynamic Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Economic Growth in Germany and the UK
Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross-section but not over time) on a global level. We make a case for testing the Easterlin hypothesis at the country level where individual panel data allow exploiting important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787007
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The working class left behind? The class gap in life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland over the last decades
Lipps, Oliver; Oesch, Daniel - 2017
case of Switzerland. We use panel data for Germany (1984-2014) and Switzerland (2000-2015) and check the robustness of our …. The class gap is twice as large in Germany than in Switzerland. In Germany, the class gap in life satisfaction narrowed … between 1984 and 1990, strongly widened between 1990 and 2005 and then decreased again after 2010. In Switzerland, the class …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776432
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2008
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292909
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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 Economic Conditions in East and West Germany Pre- and Post-Unification
Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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/10005069133
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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018743
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The child penalty: Implications of parenthood on labour market outcomes for men and women in Germany
Feldhoff, Charlotte H. - 2021
Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483867
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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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Nominal or real? The impact of regional price levels on satisfaction with life
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2013
We study the effect of real versus nominal income on life satisfaction. According to economic theory real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of life satisfaction. Previous work, however, has only studied the impact of nominal income. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314763