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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation …

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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Does Intermarriage Pay Off?: A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

from intermarriage vanish and do not differ from premiums from marriage between immigrants. However, immigrants who …

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Explaining Reurbanization: Empirical Evidence of Intraregional Migration as a Long-Term Mobility Decision from Germany

Matthes, Gesa - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

Following the discussion on reurbanization (changing intra-regional migration patterns), our research project treats …

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Leben außerhalb Deutschlands: eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur Realisierung von Auslandsbefragungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

Schupp, Jürgen; Siegel, Nico A.; Erlinghagen, Marcel; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

A feasibility study concerning the implementation of interviews abroad within the framework of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). With the pilot study "Living outside Germany", the longitudinal German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) ventures into completely uncharted methodological...

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Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

This paper investigates the wage convergence between East German workers and their West German counterparts after reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with...

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Goodbye Germany - und dann?: Erste Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie zur Befragung von Auswanderern aus Deutschland

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Stegmann, Tim - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

understanding of migration as a fundamentally open-ended process - open up new empirical perspectives for migration research. …

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

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

Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten Van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

exit from selfemployment are associated with internal migration. …

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Migrant's Pursuit of Happiness: The Impact of Adaption, Social Comparison and Relative Deprivation; Evidence from a 'Natural' Experiment

Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …

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