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Management and Performance in the Public Sector : Evidence from German Municipalities

Englmaier, Florian; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas; … - 2022

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial het-erogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...

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Electoral Cycles in Perceived Corruption : International Empirical Evidence

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

I examine whether elections influence perceived corruption in the public sector. Perceived corruption in the public … sector is measured by the reversed Transparency International’s Perception of Corruption Index (CPI). The dataset includes … perceived corruption in the public sector increased before elections. The effect is especially pronounced before early elections …

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Impact of income and unemployment on happiness : panel data evidence for European countries

Cimpoeru, Smaranda - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 8, pp. 1047-1051

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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009

This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...

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Changing Identity : Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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How Job Changes Affect People's Lives - Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Chadi, Adrian - 2016

For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...

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The Baby Year Parental Leave Reform in the GDR and its Impact on Children's Long-Term Life Satisfaction

Heisig, Katharina - 2019

This article investigates the effects of an increase in paid parental leave -- twelve months instead of six months -- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), allows us to circumvent problems of selection...

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Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day : Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed

Knabe, Andreas - 2009

We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...

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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk

Knabe, Andreas - 2008

We reassess the quot;scarringquot; hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...

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Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being Across Reference Groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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