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Does a better job match makes women happier? : work orientations, work-care choices and subjective well-being in Germany
Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Kemperman, Bauke - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008858153
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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859059
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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824264
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Inequality aversion and risk attitudes
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824273
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Women between part-time and full-time work : the influence of changing hours of work on happiness and life-satisfaction
Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010
in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824463
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Obesity and happiness
Katsaiti, Marina-Selini - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824464
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Benford's Law as an instrument for fraud detection in surveys using the data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - 2010
This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824472
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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP
Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010
Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824473
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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010
Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824841
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Individual and neighborhood determinants of survey nonresponse : an analysis based on a new subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), microgeographic characteristics and...
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
This study examines the phenomenon of nonresponse in the first wave of a refresher sample (subsample H) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Our first step is to link additional (commercial) microgeographic data on the immediate neighborhoods of the households visited by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824846