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Caring for carers? : the effect of public subsidies on the wellbeing of unpaid carers
Costa-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; Vilaplana Prieto, … - 2022
evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free … into caregiving (we find similar wellbeing effects among caregivers at baseline and caregivers throughout the sample), and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255977
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Thinking of incentivizing care? : the effect of demand subsidies on informal caregiving and intergenerational transfers
Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - 2016
demand-side subsidies such as unconditional caregiving allowances (cash benefits designed either to incentivize the provision … the inception in 2007 (and its reduction in 2012) of a universal caregiving allowance on both the supply of informal care …, and subsequent intergenerational transfer flows. We find evidence of a 30% rise in informal caregiving after the subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547784
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"Institutionalization aversion" and the willingness to pay for home health care
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
We examine the presence of a systematic preference for independent living at old age which we refer as "institutionalization aversion" (IA). Given that IA is not observable from revealed preferences, we draw on a survey experiment to elicit individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742523
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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015
In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280847
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Looking back in anger? : retirement and unemployment scarring
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2014
Previous studies find that past unemployment reduces life satisfaction even after reemployment for non-monetary reasons (unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as worsened working conditions, or increased future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349860
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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data
Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482693
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515336
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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010471914
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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success
Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2021
The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country's democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745263
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Alternative values-based "recipes" for life satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication
Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018
In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901759