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Lebenszufriedenheit und Einkommensreichtum : Eine empirische Analyse mit dem SOEP (Life Satisfaction and Income Richness: An Empirical Analysis Based on Data of the German Socioeco...

Hajek, André - 2011

In this study the relation between satisfaction with life and affluent income is analyzed by using cross-sectional and longitudinal data. The data used in this publication were made available by the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW...

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Testing the ‘Residential Rootedness' - Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja - 2012

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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So Far So Good : Age, Happiness, and Relative Income

Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2012

In a simple 2-period model of relative income under uncertainty, higher comparison income for the younger cohort can signal higher or lower expected lifetime relative income, and hence either increase or decrease well-being. With data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British...

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Re-Engaging with Survey Non-Respondents : The BHPS, SOEP and HILDA Survey Experience

Wooden, Mark - 2011

Previous research into the correlates and determinants of non-response in longitudinal surveys has focused exclusively on why it is that respondents at one survey wave choose not to participate at future waves. This is very understandable if non-response is always an absorbing state, but in many...

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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality – The Case of Germany Since the 1980s

Faik, Jürgen - 2012

The discussion paper is concerned with the interplay between demography and macroeconomics on one hand and macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on the empirical basis of the 1984-2010 German...

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Panel Conditioning and Self-Reported Satisfaction : Evidence from International Panel Data and Repeated Cross-Sections

Van Landeghem, Bert - 2012

Using data from three European countries, this paper investigates whether self-reported satisfaction data are subject to panel conditioning or a panel effect, that is, whether answers depend on whether one has previously participated in the panel. The analysis proposes a way to account for panel...

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Long-Distance Moves and Labour Market Outcomes of Dual-Earner Couples in the UK and Germany

Lersch, Philipp M. - 2012

and account for the nonindependence of both careers. Second, I compare evidence from the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany …-earner couples are temporarily adversely affected in their careers by long-distance moves in the UK and West Germany after … controlling for various characteristics of both partners. Women in East Germany are not affected by long-distance moves. Moves do …

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SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) - Description, Structure and Documentation

Richter, David - 2012

The SOEP Group currently is preparing in addition to increasing the size of the core SOEP, to establish a new Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). This will be established for the period 2012 to 2017 (with a cumulative number of presumably N=5,000 households). Now, in the year 2012, a new subsample is...

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Life Satisfaction, Household Income and Personality Theory

Proto, Eugenio - 2012

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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Temporary Agency Work in the SOEP : Coping with Data Quality Problems

Schäfer, Holger - 2012

In principle, the SOEP is a highly adequate data source for analyzing the socio-economic background of temporary agency workers. In this paper, it's argued that on second glance, the SOEP's temp worker variable shows severe problems with data quality. An easy-to-use adjustment procedure is...

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