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Quantifying the psychological costs of unemployment : the role of permanent income
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2007
Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In contrast to previous studies, we apply Friedman's...
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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The benefits of believing in chance or fate : external locus of control as a protective factor for coping with the death of a spouse
Specht, Jule; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan Christian - 2010 - Former version
The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction. Reactivity to the loss, however, varies markedly, a phenomenon that is currently not well understood. Because lack of controllability essentially contributes to the stressful...
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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens : geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes
Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010 - Vorläufige Fassung
The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of ¿atypical¿ employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasing percentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against...
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Equality of opportunity : East vs. West Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany. …
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
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Estimating benefits from regional amenities : internal migration and life satisfaction
Faßhauer, Angela; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2015
information on people's migration decisions and their life satisfaction for Germany, we provide an empirical investigation of the …
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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification : additional Insights on the pattern of convergence
Petrunyk, Inna; Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
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Potential effects of statutory minimum wage on the gender pay gap : a simulation-based study for Germany
Boll, Christina; Hüning, Hendrik; Leppin, Julian Sebastian - 2015
newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287026
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A life-span perspective on life satisfaction
Thieme, Paula; Dittrich, Dennis - 2015
The German population is ageing due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy. To sustain the German pension system, legal retirement age is increased step by step to 67 years. This raises questions about how to enable and motivate older individuals to work that long. Hence, it is...
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