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Nobody to Play with?: The Implications of Leisure Coordination
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068752
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Maternal Employment and Happiness: The Effect of Non-Participation and Part-Time Employment on Mothers' Life Satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time employment because of family constraints (e.g., due to lack of available and … involuntary familyrelated non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction. Controlling for unobserved … of family constraints (of being in short/long part-time employment). Moreover, in terms of overall happiness among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069045
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068804
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being dependingmore on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069080
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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461814
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Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes; Krug, Gerhard; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the Euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963628
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Longer Life, Higher Welfare?
Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Whereas life expectancy continues to increase in most industrialized countries many developing and transition countries are today confronted with decreases in life expectancy. Usual measures employed to compare welfare over time and space fail to deal with such demographic change and may lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963677
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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany
Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the household context....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963727
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Personelle Einkommensverteilung und der Einfluß von Imputed Rent
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
This article deals with various methods for dealing with income advantages of owner occupied housing (imputed rents). It also explores the effects of such advantages on the distribution of individual income. Following a description of the theoretical aspects of the various methods as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963867
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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963911