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Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …
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We show that personality traits mediate the effect of income on Life Satisfaction. The effect is strong in the case of Neuroticism, which measures the sensitivity to threat and punishment, in both the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socioeconomic Panel. Neuroticism increases the...
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analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born … 48 per cent in the 1971-75 birth cohort, while it almost did not change in Germany. Overall, absolute but also relative …
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examination of the welfare effects of the spring and autumn transitions for the UK and Germany. Using individual-level data and a … individuals in both the UK and Germany experience deteriorations in life satisfaction in the first week after the spring …
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This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
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. Using long-term panel data for Germany and the United Kingdom, we do not find robust evidence for a relationship between GDP …: the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom …
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occur in the economy. Applying this approach to investigate rank volatility in Germany and the US over three decades, we …
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Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant...
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and Germany and suggest that up to two, children increase happiness, and mostly among those who postpone childbearing …
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