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Choices which change life satisfaction: Revising SWB theory to account for change
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271354
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Keeping in touch : a benefit of public holidays
Merz, Joachim (contributor); Osberg, Lars (contributor) - 2006
This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310961
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Time and income poverty : an interdependent multidimensional poverty approach with German time use diary data
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2009
Income as the traditional one dimensional measure in well-being and poverty analyses is extended in recent studies by a multidimensional poverty concept. Though this is certainly a progress, however, two important aspects are missing: time as an important dimension and the interdependence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879371
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Intensity of time and income interdependent multidimensional poverty : well-being and minimum 2DGAP : German evidence
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488422
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Polarization of time and income : a multidimensional approach with well-being gap and minimum 2DGAP ; German evidence
Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina - 2013
A growing polarization of society accompanied with an erosion of the middle class experiences more and more attention at least in the German recent economic and social policy discussion. Our study contributes to the polarization discussion with respect to multidimensional theoretical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753004
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Entrepreneurs and freelancers are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458904
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Short term living conditions and long term prospects of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
Der im Ausland geborene Teil der in Deutschland lebenden Bevölkerung besteht aus Ausländern und Aussiedlern, die aus … osteuropäischen Ländern nach Deutschland emigriert sind. Während die erste Gruppe mit Problemen konfrontiert ist, die aus dem typisch … deutschen Pass. Etwa die Hälfte der Immigranten, die seit 1984 nach Deutschland kamen, sind der Gruppe der Aussiedler …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260753
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The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000
Wir vergleichen die Muster der Armutsdynamik bei Kindern in Großbritannien und Deutschland anhand der Daten der British … Household Panel Survey und des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels für den Zeitraum 1992-1997. Im Vergleich zu Deutschland ist in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260755
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117988
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Are Retirees More Satisfied? – Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Retirement on Subjective Well-Being : A Panel Analysis for Germany
Merz, Joachim - 2018
Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society concerning the “demographic change” with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction discussion and quantifies life satisfaction and pattern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909283