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The study examines the effects of work orientations and work-leisure choices alongside the effect of genes or personality traits on subjective well-being (SWB). The former effects are assumed to be mediated by the match between women's preferred and actual number of working hours indicating...
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We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
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Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the …
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Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses the German SOEP household panel for the years 1997 to 2007 to conclude that the negative effect...
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Trotz steigender Wirtschaftsleistung hat sich die Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland seit Beginn der 90er Jahre nicht …, geben. Auch die Vereinten Nationen und die EU beschäftigen sich neuerdings intensiv mit dieser Frage. Für Deutschland gab es …
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in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …
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sectional data from Germany (GSOEP 2006), UK (BHPS 2005), and Australia (HILDA 2007). We examine whether there is evidence on … Germany, using a differences-in-differences methodology, I find that non-overweight/non-obese individuals are on average 0 …
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