mostly named factors influencing subjective well-being. The goal of the empirical study for Germany is twofold: First of all … empirical results presented in this paper are mainly based on yearly longitudinal data of private households in Germany …

barely any evidence for Germany. This study adds to this literature by exploring data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …

information on people’s migration decisions and their life satisfaction for Germany, we provide an empirical investigation of the …

Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the …

How happy are first-generation immigrants in Germany today? How do patterns of formal or informal discrimination affect …

In 2012, almost five million people, or roughly 10 percent of the labor force in Germany, worked from home most or some … then. Yet overall employment in Germany has increased, as has the percentage of employees working from home in the European … Union as a whole. Compared with other EU countries, Germany is somewhat below average when it comes to home working; in …

The paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to analyze start-ups by foreigners in Germany …