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This paper provides first a concise overview of institutional day-care arrangements and their extent in the former GDR. Then institutional and infrastructural changes since German re-unification in 1990 are briefly discussed. In the empirical part, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel...
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than 20 years have passed, the average level of happiness in eastern Germany is still significantly lower than that in … Infratest Sozialforschung in collaboration with DIW Berlin. The level of happiness measured in Germany in 2013 matched that of …
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Happiness is considered a highly desirable attribute, but whether or not individuals can actively steer their lives … results demonstrate that not all pursuits of happiness are equally successful and corroborate the great importance of social …
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, on SWB is hard to reconcile with set-point theory. It is more in line with authentic happiness theory. -- SWB ; life … satisfaction ; set-point theory ; authentic happiness theory ; longitudinal analysis ; SOEP …
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to neighbours has a negative coefficient, implying that living in a high-income neighbourhood increases happiness. The …
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negative coefficient, suggesting that a good quality neighbourhood increases happiness with little loss due to negative …
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Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
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than 20 years have passed, the average level of happiness in eastern Germany is still significantly lower than that in … Infratest Sozialforschung in collaboration with DIW Berlin. The level of happiness measured in Germany in 2013 matched that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204485
Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood. This study moved beyond the typical consideration of health predictors and explored the role of social...
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