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Well-Being Over the Life Span : Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

Wunder, Christoph - 2009

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be …

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What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Schwarze, Johannes; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2021

Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of measurement can be fruitfully applied to the study of interdependent utility in general, and...

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Fly Me to the Moon : The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK

Heineck, Guido; Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market …

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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being - Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2021

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...

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Substance Use and Earnings : The Case of Smokers in Germany

Heineck, Guido; Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

This paper examines the effect of smoking behavior on earnings. Using data from the GSOEP, both cross-sectional and longitudinal models are estimated separately for males and females. Results for the cross-sectional models confirm prior analyses inasmuch as smoking has a negative effect on...

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Haerpfer, Marco - 2021

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...

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Does Future Pc Use Determine Our Wages Today? Evidence from German Panel Data

Anger, Silke; Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

Using 1985-1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages confirms the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large...

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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...

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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality : A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the Usa

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus; Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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