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Im Allgemeinen ist das BIP-Wachstum der Maßstab für die Wirtschaftskraft und den Wohlstand eines Landes. Sollte die Größe als Wohlstandsmaß ersetzt oder wenigstens ergänzt werden? Rolf Kroker, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, beantwortet diese Frage klar mit "nein". Das...
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Die Lebensqualität zeigt auf regionaler Ebene deutliche Unterschiede. In Westdeutschland weist vor allem der süddeutsche Raum eine Vielzahl von Annehmlichkeiten auf, für die auf dem Immobilienmarkt eine hohe Zahlungsbereitschaft besteht. In Ostdeutschland zeigt sich ein stärker...
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applied to socio-demographic stratification in Germany to exemplarily demonstrate the power of this new approach. All in all …
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information on people's migration decisions and their life satisfaction for Germany, we provide an empirical investigation of the …
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For representative German panel data, we document that voluntary job switching is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures as an exogenous trigger of switching to a new...
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 13,145), we investigate the effects of (not) achieving aspirations on subjective well-being. We match individual-level data about life satisfaction aspirations with their subsequent realizations and we jointly estimate two panel-data...
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The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...
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The German population is ageing due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy. To sustain the German pension system, legal retirement age is increased step by step to 67 years. This raises questions about how to enable and motivate older individuals to work that long. Hence, it is...
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,678 individuals in Germany, 1994 - 2012, for identifying and valuing the local externalities from solar, wind and biomass plants in …
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